(96 quotes found)
“A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.”
Northrop Frye
“He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face”
Benjamin Franklin
“Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels”
Voltaire
“Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left”
Robert Lynd
“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.”
Horace Mann
“What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party”
John Keats
“Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves”
Daniel Webster
“I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel”
Christopher Marlowe
“Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth”
William Shakespeare
“What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power”
William Paley
