Quotes: Quarrel

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.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

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

First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that’s normal. I understand that. I don’t quarrel with that.