Quarrel Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

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.