Quarrels Quotes

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

I against my brother I and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors all of us against the foreigner.

Bedouin Proverbs

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

David Lloyd George

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

Albion W. Small

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.

John Keats

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Thomas Carlyle

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

Voltaire

You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.

Abu Bakr

In quarreling the truth is always lost.

Publilius Syrus

Be not the first one to quarrel, nor the last to make up

Publilius Syrus

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.

François de la Rochefoucauld

If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness

Sigmund Freud

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

George Bernard Shaw

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Terence