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Quotes About Discord

The world has never been as divided as it is now.
~ Paulo Coelho
Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.
~ Unknown
People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.
~ Elizabeth I
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
~ Andre Gide
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
~ Ben Jonson
Arguments are too much like disputes.
~ Jane Austen
The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.
~ J. P. Donleavy
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.
~ Tom Waits
A plague on both your houses.
~ William Shakespeare
By my head, here come the Capulets. Mercutio- By my heel, I care not.
~ William Shakespeare
Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows!
~ William Shakespeare
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
~ William Shakespeare
What's the matter, you dissentious rogues, That rubbing the poor itch of your opinion Make yourselves scabs?
~ William Shakespeare
los grandes antagonismos se manifiestan en detalles pequeños.
~ Winston S. Churchill
quarrel with Yeremi at the time, still Chigirin
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
~ Heraclitus
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
~ Herodotus
There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on the earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.
~ Hesiod
That is how it will be—not pain itself, but the constant apprehension of pain; the constant apprehension of fault, the knowledge that you are going to be punished for something you couldn't help and didn't even know was wrong; and the discord in Hell will be constant, repeating
~ Hilary Mantel
That is how it will be—not pain itself, but the constant apprehension of pain; the constant apprehension of fault, the knowledge that you are going to be punished for something you couldn't help and didn't even know was wrong; and the discord in Hell will be constant, repeating for ever and ever, a violent argument being carried on in the next room.
~ Hilary Mantel
This slavery element is a durable element of discord among us, and ... we shall probably not have perfect peace in this country with it until it either masters the free principle in our government, or is so far mastered by the free principle as for the public mind to rest in the belief that it is going to end.
~ Unknown
I cannot but express gratitude that the true view of this element of discord among us--as I believe it is--is attracting more and more attention.
~ Unknown