Quarreling
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Quarreling is engaging in verbal dispute or heated argument.
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[edit]- But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake.- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act IV, scene 4, line 55.
- In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act V, scene 1, line 120.
- Thou! why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more, or a hair less, in his beard than thou hast: thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act III, scene 1, line 18.
- Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act III, scene 1, line 23.
- I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
- Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (c. 1738), Dialogue I.
- All quarrels halt at the grave.
- John O'Sullivan, Former Thatcher speechwriter discusses Brexit, [Video], C-SPAN at The Heritage Foundation, June 2016. At 4'27".
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
[edit]- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 653.
- Those who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.- John Gay, Fables (1727), The Mastiffs, line 1.
- L'aimable siècle où l'homme dit à l'homme,
Soyons frères, ou je t'assomme.- Those glorious days, when man said to man,
Let us be brothers, or I will knock you down. - Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun.
- Those glorious days, when man said to man,
- Cadit statim simultas, ab altera parte deserta; nisi pariter, non pugnant.
- A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party: there is no battle unless there be two.
- Seneca the Younger, De Ira, II. 34.
- The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals (1775), Act IV, scene 3.
- O we fell out, I know not why,
And kiss'd again with tears.- Alfred Tennyson, The Princess (1847), Canto II, Song.
- Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
- Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique portatif ("A Philosophical Dictionary") (1764), Weakness on Both Sides.
- Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God hath made them so;
Let bears and lions growl and fight,
For 'tis their nature too.- Isaac Watts, Against Quarrelling.
- But children you should never let
Such angry passions rise,
Your little hands were never made
To tear each other's eyes.- Isaac Watts, Against Quarrelling.