Quarrels Quotes - Page 12

• I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made.

  Blaise Pascal

  Gossip, World, Four

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• I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Taste, Kind

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The Complete William Shakespeare Collection (Illustrated)”, p.927, Tyché

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• We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Heart, Order, May

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• A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Past, Men, Half

  Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.357, Transaction Publishers

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• Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

  Betty Smith

  Two, People

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• Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters adore each other. And some don't. But how could you not love Emily Blunt? But I think I'm just one of those people who's always discontented.

  Jacki Weaver

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Song, Hate, Theme

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• Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

  William Shakespeare

  Justice, Naked, Steel

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.478

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• A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

  William Ellery Channing

  Men, Temptation, May

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• The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.

  Radhanath Swami

  Challenges, Age, Principles

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• To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.

  Fanny Burney

  Mind, Way, Elude

  Fanny Burney (1972). “Camilla: or, A picture of youth”

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• I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.

  John Adams

  Party, Understanding, Tongue

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.432

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• The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Gambling, Decay, Tables

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• There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Revenge, Humble, Doubt

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.42

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• Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things which heap fewel on the fire of ardent passion, choke and extinguish sober and true regard. On the other hand, time, which is sure to destroy that love of which half certainly depends on desire, is as sure to increase a friendship founded on talents, warm with esteem, and ambitious of success for the object of it.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Passion, Fire, Hands

  Hester Lynch Piozzi, Penelope Pennington (2005). “The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington”, Nonsuch Pub

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• From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Christian, Son, Tolerance

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• Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense?

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Hate, Nonsense, Fraud

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• Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

  David Lloyd George

  Men, Blood, Angry Man

  David Lloyd George “War Memoirs of David Lloyd George: 1917-1918”

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• A gunshot rang out, blasting a hole in the door. A crossbow quarrel zinged through the hole and stuck quivering into the opposite wall. Seth heard the rocking horse clattering down the staircase, the twang of bowstrings, and the overlapping beat of several other projectiles thudding against the door. "That was awesome," Seth told Kendra. "You're psychotic," Kendra replied.

  Brandon Mull

  Horse, Wall, Doors

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

  Philip Pullman

  Names, Stones, Sticks

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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• Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Opportunity, Judging, Wish

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• Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

  Meister Eckhart

  World, May, Language

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• But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion--nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends--do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day He will fling it on the scrap-heap and give you a new one. And then you may astonish us all - not least yourself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Blessed, Giving, House

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• I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

  Anne Frank

  Children, Thinking, Matter

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.24, Hamilton Books

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• Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Mirrors, Looks, Earth

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