Arguing Quotes - Page 26

• Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

  Oscar Wilde

  Want, Matter, Made

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.268, OUP Oxford

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• Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

  Isaac Asimov

  Marriage, Dark, Futility Of Life

  "Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood".

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• A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Reality, Perception, Latter

  Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty's House of Horrors”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will be the same wall between my soul's holy of holies and other people, even my wife, I'll accuse her in the same way of my own fear and then regret it, I'll fail in the same way to understand with my reason why I pray, and yet I will pray--but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Wall, Regret, Wife

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• Anyone ever tell you you should be a lawyer? (Otto) Only Bill when we argue. Besides, I like killing bloodsuckers too much to ever be one of them. Tabitha Deveraux. Pleased to meet you. (Tabitha)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Bills, Too Much, Lawyer

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• And if I don’t want you to? (Ravyn) You know, you’d look really weird in a dress and high heels. (Susan) What’s that supposed to mean? (Ravyn) It means you’re not my mother. Now stop arguing and help me find my shoes. (Susan)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Mean, High Heels

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• For a woman who can handle herself so well in a fight, I can’t believe you got taken out by a defenseless doorjamb. (Ravyn) Given the size of my goose egg, I would argue the defenseless part. That doorjamb has a mean left hook.(Susan)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Taken, Mean

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• Ironically no one ever wants to hear what I have to say about anything. They usually argue with me to the point I want to put them through a wall. Hopefully you won’t be so dense. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Wall, Want, Dense

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.232, Macmillan

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• only a fool would argue with a fool!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Fool

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• You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather, to write what he would write if his life depended on his taking responsibility for writing what he must in a style designed to shut out as few of his old librarians as humanly possible.

  J. D. Salinger

  Believe, Writing, Responsibility

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• Hard to argue with a woman, period. Only time a man wins with one of them is when the woman is either on TV or dead. (Jack)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Winning, Men, Tvs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Bad Attitude”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Trying, Rats, Normal

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.210, Random House

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• And Flock Rule Number Two is, Don't argue with Max or you'll live to regret it." I spun and stomped out to the clearing, turning back for one last jab at Dylan. "And by the way, you clearly DON'T know me better than Fang does. Do you see Fang arguing with me? No, you do not." Fang rolled his eyes.

  James Patterson

  Regret, Eye, Two

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• After a universal silence, Leo was the first to speak. “Did anyone else notice—” “Yes,” Catherine said. “What do you make of it?” “I haven’t decided yet.” Leo frowned and took a sip of port. “He’s not someone I would pair Bea with.” “Whom would you pair her with?” “Hanged if I know,” Leo said. “Someone with similar interests. The local veterinarian, perhaps?” “He’s eighty-three years old and deaf,” Catherine said. “They would never argue,” Leo pointed out.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Years, Silence, Three

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.157, St. Martin's Press

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• Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Argument

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Priests, Nun

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Runaway”, p.234, Laurel Leaf

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• A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane. "Dumbledore would totally win," said the first one. "He has the badass Killing Curse." The second lycanthrope made a trenchant point. "But Dumbledore isn't real." "I don't think Magnus Bane is real either," scoffed the first. "Have you ever met him?" "This is so weird," said Clary, slinking down in her seat. "Are you listening to them?" "No. It's rude to eavesdrop," said Jace.

  Cassandra Clare

  Badass, Real, Book

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.816, Simon and Schuster

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• Bluestar blinked. "There are cats who would argue that there should never have been a fifth Clan in the forest at all. Why are there four oaks at Fourtrees, if not to stand for the four Clans?" Firestar gazed up at the massive oak trees, then back at Bluestar. Fury pure as a lighting flash rushed through his body. "Are you mouse-brained?" he snarled. "Are you telling me SkyClan had to leave because there weren't enough trees?

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Tree, Body

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• Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.

  Daniel Handler

  Sometimes, Pleasant

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• We want to climb in with you,' Dermot said. 'We'll all sleep better.' That seemed incredibly weird and creepy to me - or maybe I only thought it should have. I was simply too tired to argue. I climbed in the bed. Claude got in on one side of me, Dermot on the other. Just when I was thinking, I would never be able to sleep, that this situation was too odd and too wrong, I felt a kind of blissful relaxation roll through my body, a kind of unfamiliar comfort. I was with family. I was with blood. And I slept.

  Charlaine Harris

  Tired, Sleep, Thinking

  Charlaine Harris (2010). “Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.275, Penguin

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• I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you’ll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  War, Three, Remember

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.287, Macmillan

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• Do I make you nervous, Madame Lambert?” “No. I just prefer to keep my distance.” “Evil isn’t contagious.” “I thought you said you weren’t the most evil man in the world?” “I’m not. But that doesn’t mean I’m a good man.” “I don’t think anyone would argue with that.

  Anne Stuart

  Distance, Mean, Men

  Anne Stuart (2007). “Ice Storm”, p.87, MIRA

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• It's the perfect solution. We argue all the time. We can't stand each other. It's like we're already married.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Perfect, Married, Solutions

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married By Morning: Number 4 in series”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

  C. S. Lewis

  Patient, Argument, Screwtape Letters

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Screwtape Letters”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.

  Stephen King

  Ocean, Trying, Spoons

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.321, Simon and Schuster

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