Quotes About Quarrel

In a false quarrel there is no true valor

What's the matter, you dissentious rogues, That rubbing the poor itch of your opinion Make yourselves scabs?

The merciless Macdonald (Worthy to be a rebel, — for, to that, The multiplying villainies of nature Do swarm upon him) from the Western Isles Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied; And Fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, Showed like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak: For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name) Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour's minion, Carv'd out his passage.

Of this I am quite sure. If we open up a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

The awful catastrophe of their quarrel had evaporated in a commonplace.

Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

In any quarrel among men, if one side proclaims its complete impotence of will and hand, there are no bounds to the evils that may ensue.

The cause of quarrel had disappeared on paper at the same time as the fighting all over Europe began.

quarrel with Yeremi at the time, still Chigirin

For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds a spring of merriment in the soul of a sane man.

Her mood was suddenly in free fall, a state she knew all too well. A heaviness inside. A hollow loneliness. A need to either quarrel or cry. A downward plunge that could only be escaped by huge loss of temper, howling for her mother, or what people like teachers called going too far. Trouble on the way.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal.

The concept of God in Jewish orthodoxy is one where you're having constant quarrels with God. Where I come from, in Islam, the only concept of God is you submit to Him and you obey His commands; no quarreling allowed.

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 need to know when,' he said, 'In this case when is more important than how. Do you have a time-table?' For although images of this murder now surrounded him, and the parts of the body had become emblems of pursuit, violence and flight, they were as broken and indistinct as the sounds of a quarrel in a locked room.

Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

You made me lose my appetite, Boomer. My mom tells me that all the time. Your family must be just like mine!

Later that night I met a Bulgarian. "In my country, you say to someone you hate, 'May you build a house from your kidney stones.'" Well, finally, I thought.

I'm also getting a kick out of "having a blue," which means having a fight. You could say, "It was a serious blue," or "We had a blue," or "If I talk to this woman there's going to be a blue." You could also say, "I'm ready to put the blue on.

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

Fustilarian?

The whole thing's absurd," he said. "Your sister married a duke. I told Clevedon . . ." he trailed off. "What did you tell him?" "Never mind that now," he said. "I certainly will mind it now," she said. "Do you want to find Clara or do you want to quarrel?" he said. "Preferably both," she said.

You could start an argument in an empty house.