Quarreling

Quarreling is engaging in verbal dispute or heated argument. Sourced But greatly to find quarrel in a strawWhen 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. External links quarreling Category:Discourse