Quotes About Conflict

Let not women's weapons, waterdrops,Stain my man's cheeks!

My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?Deny thy father, and refuse thy name;Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,And I'll no longer be a Capulet.

I understand a fury in your words,But not the words.

I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, "Fie upon this quiet life! I want work."

My near'st and dearest enemy.

For what is wedlock forced, but a hell,An age of discord and continual strife?Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,And is a pattern of celestial peace.

That England, that was wont to conquer others,Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

BewareOf entrance to a quarrel, but, being in,Bear 't that th' opposed may beware of thee.Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

Rightly to be greatIs not to stir without great argument,But greatly to find quarrel in a strawWhen honor's at the stake.

I do perceive here a divided duty.

Then, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!

You tread upon my patience.

Stemming it with hearts of controversy.

Reason, in itself confounded,Saw division grow together.

Tut, tut, good enough to toss; food for powder, food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better.

Grow like savages—as soldiers will,That nothing do but meditate on blood.

Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front.

Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.

William Shakespeare

Bassanio: Do all men kill the things they do not love?Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill?

There's a skirmish of wit between them.

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

We would, and we would not.