Quotes About Discord

And now," said the Duke, "there's something very unpleasant on the loose. We may pretend that it isn't; we may deny it, but we know that there are more and more people who hate those whom they used not to hate. And there are even some who encourage this hate, who harbour that hate within themselves and are happy to see it flourish in the breasts of others.

What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

remove the cold war and internal conflicts multiply in countries by the week.

We always look on the dark side, are suckers for the crisis of the day, and quickly separate into groups.

Injustice and peace are strange bedfellows

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

Most arguments are useless.

I do miss childhood: one long trance state, broken only by bouts of sickening family discord.

Instead of hearing the harmony of the world, we have heard a cacophony of sounds, an unbearable static in which we try, in despair, to pick up on some quieter melody, even the weakest beat.

the tuneless music of madness

Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands.

Life was a damned muddle . . . a football game with every one off-side and the referee gotten rid of—every one claiming the referee would have been on his side. . . .

Yes, everything's just fine. It's all perfectly fine. Except for one thing: it's all screwed up.

Yes, the sounds of the city on this long Sunday – so many, all at odds, and all of them right.

I want to manufacture a feud.

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.

An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.

Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!

Perfection can be overdone; a rift in a lute relieves melodious monotony, and when discords cease to amuse, one can always have the instrument mended or buy a banjo.

Because there is no fight like a church fight, all hell broke loose.

All things not at peace will cry out.

It seems that Frank alienated virtually everyone in the building and was increasingly ostracized.