Quarrel Quotes

If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems.

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.

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

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

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

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

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

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

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

We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.

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

First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that's normal. I understand that. I don't quarrel with that.

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

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

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.

We will separate, but we will not quarrel.

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

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.

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.

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?