Quarrel Quotes

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill

Future, Past, Lost

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson

Men, Greatest, Down

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William Shakespeare

True, False, Valor

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.
Robert Frost

Short, Story, Ready

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wish, Blameless

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Saint Francis de Sales

Friendship, Made, Friends

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw

Woman, Test, Behave

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

Written, Lover, Stone

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?
Blaise Pascal

Him, Lives, Though

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Battle, Two, Party

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Aldous Huxley

Men, War, Another

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Thomas Carlyle

War, Fight, Battle

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Soren Kierkegaard

She, Admit, Oneself

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas Carlyle

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Cannot, Argue, Generally

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
George Eliot

Good, Friends, Sometimes

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
William Butler Yeats

Poetry, Others, Ourselves

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
John Keats

Grace, Though, Fine

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.
Horace Mann

Good, Evil, Often

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
Jean Rostand

Time, Same, Married

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
Mary Baker Eddy

You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.
Abu Bakr

Become, Talk, High

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Daniel Webster

Themselves, Among, Disagree

I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
Christopher Marlowe

Justice, Complete, Armed

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
Neville Chamberlain

Nothing, Trying, Country

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
E. W. Howe

Alone, Wife, Before

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
Cyril Connolly

Family, Nature, Romantic

It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
Matthew Prior

End, Two, Takes

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