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Quotes About Quarrel

twittering among themselves in some obscure but vehement argument.
~ Steven Erikson
Laurence could make no real quarrel with the aims, which were natural and just; but England was at war, after all, and he was conscious, as Temeraire was not, of the impudence in demanding concessions from their own Government under such circumstances: very like mutiny. Yet
~ Naomi Novik
We quarreled, he said. Things were said that shouldn't have been said on both sides. But that girl has such a temper, you wouldn't believe it... She threatened to leave us and said she'd never come back.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it.
~ Carson McCullers
You talk like a Rosicrucian, who will love nothing but a sylph, who does not believe in the existence of a sylph, and who yet quarrels with the whole universe for not containing a sylph.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.
~ C. C. Colton
Excuse me, Scopus," Beric said quietly, "I am perfectly ready to fight with this bragadocio, and challenge him to a contest; a few hard knocks will do neither of us any harm, therefore let us go into the school and have it out, It is much better so than to have perpetual quarrelling.
~ George Alfred Henty
Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny.
~ Robert Gottlieb
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.
~ Susanna Clarke
There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
~ E. M. Forster
They've really begun the war, he said to himself. And all over a word in a dictionary, the ninnies!
~ Natalie Babbitt
When the moon rose late in the night, people said it was refusing food, as a sullen husband refuses his wife's food when they have quarrelled.
~ Chinua Achebe
It is not bravery for a man to beat his wife. I know a man and his wife must quarrel; there is no abomination in that. Even brothers and sisters from the same womb disagree; how much more two strangers. No, you may quarrel, but let it not end in fighting.
~ Chinua Achebe
he could see the rest of the Hellenic race taking sides in the quarrel;
~ Thucydides
I'll cry!! Ububu... BUEEEEEEE!! I... Ichigo, you thupid! Baldy!! Piece of poop! Ichigo: Alright! Alright! I get it already, stop crying! Nel: Impotent! Ichigo: I'm not impotent!! Rukia: What's he shouting about? Nel: Virgin!!! Ichigo: SHUT THE HELL UP ALREADY!!!
~ Tite Kubo
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. Still, lovers quarrel. Frequently, they quarrel simply to recharge the air between them, to sharpen the aliveness of their relationship.
~ Tom Robbins
They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man in the whole world and the most wretched, and after a few years she died, and then, when he was thirty, he died, too. But by that time Catullus had invented the love poem.
~ Tom Stoppard
Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel.
~ George Herbert
A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.
~ George R.R. Martin
You haggle like a crone with a codfish.
~ George R.R. Martin
Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady that neither of them care for.
~ George Savile
A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
~ Robert Frost
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
~ Winston Churchill