Quarrelsome Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.
— Deepak Chopra
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You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.
— Deepak Chopra
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It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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,…
— William Penn
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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the…
— Charles Lamb
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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…
— John Donne
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Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion to the private…
— Hermann Bondi
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Nearly all the Gauls are of a lofty stature, white, and of ruddy complexion; terrible from the sternness of their eyes, very quarrelsome, and of…
— Ammianus Marcellinus
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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…
— William Shakespeare
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A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt,…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.
— Nancy Astor
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While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant,…
— Barbara Tuchman
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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various…
— Buffalo Bill
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I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago…
— John Steinbeck
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This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's…
— Barack Obama
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Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that…
— Lauren Oliver
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Being the only female in what was basically a boys’ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by becoming hard or…
— Donna Tartt
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A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.
— Benjamin Franklin
Who Wrote These Quarrelsome Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Quarrelsome Quotes as follows: