Proper noun
War and Peace
(often attributive) A text or utterance of remarkable length or complexity.
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write War and Peace in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling. Stanley Kubrick
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply. Ulrich Beck
One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book. Peter Greenaway
If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times. Lewis Black
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Anthony Burgess
For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business. Karl Liebknecht