Quarreling

Quarreling is engaging in verbal dispute or heated argument.

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 * But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
 * William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act IV, scene 4, line 55.


 * In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
 * William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act V, scene 1, line 120.


 * Thou! why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more, or a hair less, in his beard than thou hast: thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes.
 * William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act III, scene 1, line 18.


 * Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.
 * William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act III, scene 1, line 23.


 * I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
 * Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (c. 1738), Dialogue I.


 * All quarrels halt at the grave.
 * John O'Sullivan, Former Thatcher speechwriter discusses Brexit, [Video], C-SPAN at The Heritage Foundation, June 2016. At 4'27".

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 653.


 * Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose.
 * John Gay, Fables (1727), The Mastiffs, line 1.


 * L'aimable siècle où l'homme dit à l'homme, Soyons frères, ou je t'assomme.
 * Those glorious days, when man said to man, Let us be brothers, or I will knock you down.
 * Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun.


 * Cadit statim simultas, ab altera parte deserta; nisi pariter, non pugnant.
 * A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party: there is no battle unless there be two.
 * Seneca the Younger, De Ira, II. 34.


 * The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
 * Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals (1775), Act IV, scene 3.


 * O we fell out, I know not why, And kiss'd again with tears.
 * Alfred Tennyson, The Princess (1847), Canto II, Song.


 * Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
 * Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique portatif ("A Philosophical Dictionary") (1764), Weakness on Both Sides.


 * Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight,  For 'tis their nature too.
 * Isaac Watts, Against Quarrelling.


 * But children you should never let Such angry passions rise, Your little hands were never made  To tear each other's eyes.
 * Isaac Watts, Against Quarrelling.