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Quarrel Quotes

Internal, external, and everything between.

The sharpest line draws a real distinction: quarrels with others make Disagreement-flavored rhetoric, but quarrels with ourselves make poetry.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

Abraham Lincoln

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Quotes by William Butler Yeats

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

Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

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

Quotes by Saint Francis de Sales

Conflict Quotes

I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.

Quotes by Michael Moorcock

It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.

Quotes by Matthew Prior

I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.

Quotes by Mario Cuomo

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.

Quotes by John McCrae

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.

Quotes by Horace Mann

Disagreement Quotes

I don't like yelling and fighting, and I can't quarrel.

Quotes by Grace Kelly

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.

Quotes by Ferdinand Marcos

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

Quotes by Daniel Webster

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

Quotes by Christopher Marlowe

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these quarrel quotes explore?
The word covers everything from small-scale friction, clamouring for originality while quarreling with it, to a striking literary distinction that quarrels with others make rhetoric, while quarrels with ourselves make poetry.
Why do people search for quarrel quotes?
People look for these when writing about Conflict, both external disagreements and internal struggle, since 'quarrel' captures a slightly more literary, old-fashioned register than plain arguing.
One quote is from a WWI poem about carrying on 'our quarrel with the foe,' is this collection about war?
Not primarily, that's one historically weighted reference among quotes that mostly deal with quieter, personal quarrels, like disagreements over religion or creative originality.
Do any of these quotes have no quarrel with something, rather than describing a conflict?
Yes, one speaker states having 'no quarrel with religion' despite a secular background, which uses the word to describe an absence of conflict rather than its presence.
What's the most distinctive idea in this collection?
The line separating quarrels with others from quarrels with ourselves stands out, framing internal Disagreement as the more creatively productive kind.

A secular voice claims 'no quarrel with religion,' while a wartime poem hands the quarrel down like a torch, Conflict takes many shapes here.