Discord

Discord or dissension is lack of agreement among persons, groups, or things, and the tension or strife resulting from such a lack of agreement. It may also refer to a confused or harsh sound or mingling of sounds. In music, an inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.

Quotes

• From hence, let fierce contending nations know
  What dire effects from civil discord flow.
  • Joseph Addison (1672–1719). Cato (1712), Act v. Sc. 4.

• Have always been at daggers-drawing,
  And one another clapper-clawing.
  • Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part II (1664), Canto II, line 79.

• That each pull'd different ways with many an oath,
  "Arcades ambo," id est—blackguards both.
  • Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto IV, Stanza 93.

• Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun,
  Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run:
  So lines that from their parallel decline,
  More they proceed the more they still disjoin.
  • Samuel Garth, The Dispensary (1699), Canto III, line 184.

• Alas! how light a cause may move
  Dissension between hearts that love!
  Hearts that the world in vain had tried,
  And sorrow but more closely tied;
  That stood the storm when waves were rough,
  Yet in a sunny hour fall off.
  • Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), The Light of the Harem, line 183.

• Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell
  Civil dissension is a viperous worm
  That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I (c. 1588-90), Act III, scene 1, line 71.

• If they perceive dissension in our looks
  And that within ourselves we disagree,
  How will their grudging stomachs be provoked
  To wilful disobedience and rebel!
  • William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I (c. 1588-90), Act IV, scene 1, line 139.

• Take but degree away, untune that string,
  And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets
  In mere oppugnancy.
  • William Shakespeare (1564–1616). Troilus and Cressida (1602), Act i. Sc. 3.

• All your strength is in your union
  All your danger is in discord;
  Therefore be at peace henceforward,
  And as brothers live together.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). The Song of Hiawatha (1855), Part i.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 197.

• And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.
  • Lord Byron, The Prophecy of Dante, Canto II, line 140.

• And bitter waxed the fray;
  Brother with brother spake no word
  When they met in the way.
  • Jean Ingelow, Poems, Strife and Peace.

• An old affront will stir the heart
  Through years of rankling pain.
  • Jean Ingelow, Poems, Strife and Peace.

• Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies,
  With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes,
  Lean sallow cheeks, long chin with beard supplied,
  Poor crackling joints, and wither'd parchment hide,
  As if old Drums, worn out with martial din,
  Had clubb'd their yellow Heads to form her Skin.
  • John Wolcot, The Louisad, Canto III, line 121.

See also

• Dissent