Quarrels Quotes

Most popular quarrels quotes

In quarreling, the truth is always lost. - Publilius Syrus quote.
In quarreling, the truth is always lost.

arguments

Never answer an angry word with an angry word. It's the second one that makes the quarrel.

anger

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. - G. K. Chesterton quote.
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

arguments

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were on one side only. - François de La Rochefoucauld quote.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were on one side only.
Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have. - Sydney Harris quote.
Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.

marriage

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats. - C. C. Colton quote.
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats.

inner conflict

Family quarrels are bitter things.  They don't go by any rules.  They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. - F. Scott Fitzgerald quote.
Family quarrels are bitter things.  They don't go by any rules.  They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

family

Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.

love

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding. - André Gide quote.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
André Gide The Journals of André Gide: 1914¬–1927

misunderstanding

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. - W. B. Yeats quote.
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

poetry

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes. - Aesop quote.
The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.
During a quarrel, to have said too little may be mended; to have said too much, not always.
In the end is it not futile to try and follow the course of a quarrel between husband and wife?  Such a conversation is sure to meander more than any other.
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful. - Margaret Deland quote.
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art. - Mary Baker Eddy quote.
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

religion

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next. - William Faulkner quote.
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship; as experience shows that the callosity formed round a broken bone makes it stronger than before. - St. Francis de Sales quote.
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship; as experience shows that the callosity formed round a broken bone makes it stronger than before.
And were an epitaph to be my story,
I'd have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on my stone:
I had a lover's quarrel with the world. - Robert Frost quote.
And were an epitaph to be my story,
I'd have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on my stone:
I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves. - William Hazlitt quote.
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone. - E. W. Howe quote.
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. - E. W. Howe quote.
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel.  It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. - Thomas Jefferson quote.
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. - François de La Rochefoucauld quote.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. - John Milton quote.
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.  Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
The quarrel between them was a terrible treadmill they mounted together and tramped round and round until they were wearied out or in despair. - Katherine Anne Porter quote.
The quarrel between them was a terrible treadmill they mounted together and tramped round and round until they were wearied out or in despair.
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. - Jean Rostand quote.
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful, and always, she had to admit, interesting. - May Sarton quote.
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful, and always, she had to admit, interesting.
May Sarton Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. - Seneca quote.
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.  Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly. - George Bernard Shaw quote.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.  Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly.
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. - Voltaire quote.
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.