All's fair in love and war
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All's fair in love and war is a dictum which means that unpleasant behavior is acceptable during love and conflict.
The idea is perhaps first recorded in Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote (1604):
- "Love and war are all one . . . It is lawful to use sleights and stratagems to . . . attain the wished end."
The exact phrasing that we know today is thought to be by Frank Smedley in his novel, Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil:
- "You opened the letter!" exclaimed I.
- "In course I did; how was I to read it if I hadn't? All's fair in love and war, you know . . ."
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See also
- "All is fair in love and war", a proverb attributed to John Lyly's Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit
- Fairness
- Love
- War
- in liefde en oorlog alles is geoorloofd
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