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

-Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville
  Radio broadcast, 27 Sep, referring to Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland.

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

-Etherege, Sir George
  The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, act1, sc.1.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'The Lesson for Today'.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

-Halifax, George Savile, 1st Marquis of
Collected in Complete Works (published1912).

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

-Inge,William Ralph
  Outspoken Essays (first series),'Patriotism'.

Plus j'ai d'amour plus j'ai de fa"  cherie. The more I love, the more I quarrel. '

-Marguerite d'Angoule"  me
  Dizains.

Pray, sir, be easy; the quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

-Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
  Sir Lucius O'Trigger toJack Absolute.The Rivals, act 4, sc.3.

   I won't quarrel with my Bread and Butter.

-Swift,Jonathan
  Polite Conversation, dialogue1.

The function of literature through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and thehigh authorityof theself in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

-Trillin, Calvin Marshall
  Beyond Culture, introduction.