Quotes Tagged "quarrel"

A true friend doesn't have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

That they were left with only this--this awkward, prearranged meet-up, this terrible silence--seemed almost more than she could bear, and the unfairness of it all welled up inside of her. It was his fault, all of it, and yet her hatred for him was the worst kind of love, a tortured longing, a misguided wish that made her heart hammer in her chest. She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two different puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again.

You can be right and still lose the fight.

It is possible for you to be the wrong one in an argument about you.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

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

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

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.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

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

A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.

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

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

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.