Quotes about quarrelsome (14 Quotes)


    Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous the second, the Quip Modest the third, the Reply Churlish the fourth, the Reproof Valiant the fifth the Countercheck Quarrelsome the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct and you may avoid that too, with an If.... Your If is the only peace-maker much virtue in If.

    A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.


    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.




    The first, 'the retort courteous' the second, 'the quip modest' the third, 'the reply churlish' the fourth, 'the reproof valiant' the fifth, 'the countercheck quarrelsome' the sixth, 'the lie with circumstance' the seventh, 'the lie direct'.

    As all his friends will bear witness, he was a man with an outstanding gift for pastime with good company, for laughter and the love of friends a gift which found full scope in any number of holidays and walking tours, the joyous character of his response to these being well conveyed in his letters. He had, indeed, a remarkable talent for friendship, particularly for friendship of an uproarious kind, and argumentative but never quarrelsome. (Clive Staples

    A barren wife may be superseded in the eighth year, she whose children ,all die in the tenth, she who bears only daughters in the eleventh, but she who is quarrelsome without delay.


    What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq or South East Asia or the Balkans. A foreign war is a wonderful lollipop to stuff in the mouth of a possibly quarrelsome press.

    When men are employed, they are best contented for on the days they worked they were good-natured and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good days work, they spent the evening jollily but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome.


    All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.



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