How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing. Neville Chamberlain
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Robert Frost
The Middle Eastern states aren’t nations; they’re quarrels with borders. P J O’Rourke
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. Wendell Phillips
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. Terence.
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? George Eliot
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. William Butler Yeats
I would have written of me on my stone:
I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost
People who disagree have an argument, but people who dissent have a quarrel. Daniel J Boorstin
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to 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
Those who in quarrels interpose
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
John Gay
Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it. Ned Rorem
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. John Milton
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just. William Shakespeare (King Henry VI. Part II. 3:ii)
Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes. William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, 3:i)
In a false quarrel there is no true valour. William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing, 5:i)
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
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
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The test of a man’s or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly. George Bernard Shaw
Quarrels would never last long, if the fault were on but one side. Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. George Eliot