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.