These quarrel quotes will inspire you. Quarrel is a heated argument or disagreement, typically about a trivial issue and between people who are usually on good terms.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging quarrel quotes, quarrel sayings, and quarrel proverbs.
Best Quarrel Quotes
- “I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “I ain’t got no quarrel with them, Viet Cong.” ~ Muhammad Ali
- “A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “Falsehoods not only disagree with truths but usually quarrel among themselves.” ~ Daniel Webster
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“The course of true love never did run smooth.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.” ~ Seneca the Elder
- “The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel – and all of them are right.” ~ Heinrich Heine
- “The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel – and all of them are right.” ~ Heinrich Heine
- “The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.” ~ William Faulkner
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“I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.” ~ Walter Savage Landor
- “The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing — and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
- “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
- “Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?” ~ George Eliot , Quarrel quotes for friends
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“Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.” ~ Andre Gide
- “Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “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
- “Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.” ~ John Donne
- “When you’re in the Middle of an Argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be Right or be Happy?” ~ Wayne Dyer
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“The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.” ~ Jean Racine
- “A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.” ~ Saint Francis de Sales
- “The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.” ~ Suzanne Curchod
- “The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
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“Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.” ~ Voltaire
- “Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.” ~ Gautama Buddha
- “Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.” ~ E. M. Forster
- “In all private quarrels, the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.” ~ George Eliot
- “In most quarrels, there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
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“Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel.” ~ George Herbert
- “He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. – Ben Franklin” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. – Ben Franklin” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.” ~ Henri Bourassa
- “The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.” ~ Ignatius of Loyola
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“When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.” ~ Mary McCarthy
- “Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.” ~ Horace
- “A lover’s quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.” ~ Robert Breault , Quarrel quotes love
- “Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?” ~ Blaise Pascal
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“When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.” ~ Oliver Goldsmith
- “We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.” ~ Luc de Clapiers
- “I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.” ~ Joseph Hall
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“Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.” ~ Wendell Phillips
- “In love quarrels, the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.” ~ Walter Scott
- “We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
- “In a false quarrel, there is no true valor.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.” ~ Sigmund Freud
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“Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.” ~ Walter Benjamin
- “If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.” ~ Sigmund Freud
- “Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
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“It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.” ~ Aime Martin
- “The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.” ~ Benjamin Haydon
- “Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
- “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.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.” ~ Mark Twain
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“The secret to healthy conflict resolution isn’t taking a ‘you against me’ stance. The secret is realizing it’s ‘us against Satan.’ He’s the real enemy.” ~ Lysa TerKeurst
- “This Christmas mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love, and then speak it again.” ~ Howard W. Hunter
- “True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe’s conceit.” ~ Honore de Balzac
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“Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.” ~ Rick Riordan
- “Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism, Life After Faith is utterly devoid of cartoons and caricatures of religion. It is, instead, a sober and soulful book, an exemplary practice of philosophical reflection. Scrupulous in its argument, elegant in its style, humane in its spirit, it is animated by a stirring aspiration to wisdom. Even as I quarrel with it I admire it.” ~ Leon Wieseltier
- “Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments returned on the wave, but the wave returned taller, a Tsunami, and neither of us knew where to run or what to do.” ~ Craig Stone
