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Quotes About Quarrel

Faith and repentance will be good doctrine to preach and hear to the end of the world; you may as well quarrel with God, because he hath made but one heaven, and one way to it, as with the preacher, for preaching these over and over. If thy heart were humble, and thy palate spiritual, old truths would be new to thee every time thou hearest them.
~ William Gurnall
I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day.
~ Elie Wiesel
An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.
~ Winston S. Churchill
If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me.
~ Ted Nugent
I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.
~ Joseph Conrad
The thing is, most people just don't enjoy haggling, period.
~ Jason Fried
As Grover Cleveland remarked, "When quarreling parties are both in the wrong, and are assailed with blame Ã¢â'¬Â¦ they will do strange things to save their faces.
~ Edmund Morris
When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that isn't mortal or decisive can be productive only of a short truce which allows the unsuccessful compeditent to sharpen his arms for a new encounter.
~ Edward Gibbon
The work of God needs to be done. Souls must not perish while you give your attention to your worldly business or worldly pleasure, take your ease, or quarrel with your brethren.
~ Richard Baxter
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Now? The future and I are just about even, our quarrel all but resolved. I welcome its coming, and I resolve to be attentive to the details of its arrival. I plan to meet it at the station in my best white dress, violet corsage in hand. Waving
~ Kathleen Rooney
The wind and the water were carrying on their perpetual quarrel, the wind swooping down to tease the waves and the sea hissing and spitting as it crashed against the land.
~ Ken Follett
mendacious, implying that he had got into a brawl
~ Ken Follett
Rightly to be greatIs not to stir without great argument,But greatly to find quarrel in a strawWhen honor's at the stake.
~ William Shakespeare
There's a skirmish of wit between them.
~ William Shakespeare
And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument.
~ William Shakespeare
It wasn't a petty squabble. It was a big squabble, in which pettiness played no small part.
~ David Quammen
Portia countered with something cutting and I left my sisters quarrelling over the details whilst I mooned about, waiting for a letter from Brisbane. While Olivia had wanted a smart town wedding, the rest had mercifully overruled her and decided I would be married from the church of St. Barnabas in Blessingstoke, the village nestled at the foot of our family seat at Bellmont Abbey, surrounded by friends and family.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Knowing that our happiness Might never come again; I, not forgetting, "Till death us do part," Was outrageously happy With death in my heart. Lovers in peacetime With fifty years to live, Have time to tease and quarrel And question what to give; But lovers in wartime Better understand The fullness of living, With death close at hand.
~ Alice Duer Miller
Badger: The cuss you are. Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?
~ Roald Dahl
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
~ Robert Frost
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
~ Robert Frost