Definition of Quarrel

Quarrel

An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head.

Any small square or quadrangular member

A square of glass, esp. when set diagonally.

A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square.

A square or lozenge-shaped paving tile.

A glazier's diamond.

A four-sided cutting tool or chisel having a diamond-shaped end.

A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses.

Ground of objection, dislike, difference, or hostility; cause of dispute or contest; occasion of altercation.

Earnest desire or longing.

To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.

To dispute angrily, or violently; to wrangle; to scold; to altercate; to contend; to fight.

To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot.

To quarrel with.

To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights.

One who quarrels or wrangles; one who is quarrelsome.

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Quarrel Quotations

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William Shakespeare

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

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

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

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.
Robert Frost

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Soren Kierkegaard

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
Aldous Huxley

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

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
William Butler Yeats

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
John Keats

I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
Christopher Marlowe

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Daniel Webster

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

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

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

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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.
Abu Bakr

I don't like yelling and fighting, and I can't quarrel.
Grace Kelly

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Saint Francis de Sales

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

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.
Muriel Rukeyser

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

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
David Lloyd George

We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right.
Norman Lear

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Quarrel Translations

quarrel in Afrikaans is kwessie, rusie maak, rusie, argument
quarrel in Dutch is kwestie, strijd, twist, dispuut
quarrel in French is bagarrer, noise, querelle, algarade, dispute
quarrel in German is Streit, streiten, zanken, zanken, Zank
quarrel in Italian is questione, litigare
quarrel in Latin is iurgium, seditio
quarrel in Norwegian is trette, krangle, krangel

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