Quarrel Quotes

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. (Robert Frost)
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. View quote
Jean Rostand
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future. View quote
Winston Churchill
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. View quote
Horace Mann
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? View quote
Blaise Pascal
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. View quote
Robert Frost
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. View quote
Francis de Sales
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art. View quote
Mary Baker Eddy
Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one. (George Etherege)
I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. View quote
Jonathan Swift
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he who gets his fist in fust. View quote
Josh Billings
Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly. View quote
Elihu Root
We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right. View quote
Norman Lear
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. View quote
Daniel Webster
The prophet Isaiah ... points out what will be the cause of this change; for he says that hatred, quarrel, and fighting will come to an end, because men will have a true knowledge of God. "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters which cover the sea" (Isa. xi. ver. 9) Note it. View quote
Maimonides
Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements. (Anthony Eden)
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? View quote
George Eliot
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
I had a lovers quarrel with the world. View quote
Robert Frost
The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was: If you get into a quarrel with anybody, hit him first. "If you hit first, the battle is half-won," my father always said "Don't let him hit first. You hit him first." "What's more," he never forgot to say, too "Usually one blow is all you need." I found this to be true. View quote
Christopher Vokes
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