Quotes with quarrel

  • Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

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  • Cato the Elder From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Robert Frost A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Robert Frost A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • St. Francis de Sales A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • Seneca A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Thomas Jefferson An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Robert Frost 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
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Blaise Pascal Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Cyril Connolly Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Robert Frost I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Winston Churchill If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • William Shakespeare In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • May Sarton It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Edward F. Halifax Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Eliot Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Heinrich Heine The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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