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

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.
Herman Kahn

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
Dean Inge

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

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

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
Edward F. Halifax

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

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
George Etherege

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
David Lloyd George

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

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

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

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.
John McCrae

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
Lionel Trilling

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
Albion W. Small

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

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.
Muriel Rukeyser

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

War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.
Charles Mackay

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