Catherine the Great
Empress
"You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes."
Quarrels quotes
Quarrels
69 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Muhammad Ali
Boxer, Activist
"I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong."
Plato
Philosopher
"Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right."
William Butler Yeats
Poet, Playwright
"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel."
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"In a false quarrel there is no true valor."
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"The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters."
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"Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding."
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"Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?"
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"Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures."
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"It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone."
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"From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs."
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"Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling."
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"The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness."
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"Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong."
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"Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel."
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"Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted."
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"Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end."
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"I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me."
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"I won't quarrel with my bread and butter."
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"There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect"
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"Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right."
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"Beware Of entrance to a quarrel."
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"One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them."
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"I never take my own side in a quarrel."
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