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Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.

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

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

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

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

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.

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

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