Family Quarrel Quotes:

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.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Family, Home, Skins, Inspirational Family, Inspirational Family Love

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

- Jean Racine

topic: Love, Lovers, Renewal, Latin Phrases, Family Quarrel

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

- Dodie Smith

source: Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120

topic: Funny, Family, Heart, Happy Family, Inspirational Family

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

- Cyril Connolly

topic: Nature, Men, Literature, Family Quarrel

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

- Mignon McLaughlin

topic: Family, Understanding, Bitterness, Inspirational Family, Inspirational Family Love

Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to her the clearest proof that it would be another quite useless day, a day she would gladly have done without. For a moment she thought that a day like this would be pointless for anyone on earth, then abruptly changed her mind as she realised that thousands of women, after a hard week's work, or a family quarrel, or even just after catching a cold, would envy her just for having the leisure to rest in comfort.

- Ismail Kadaré

topic: Envy, Mind, Useless, Days Like This, Family Quarrel

I think all of us are agreed that war is probably man's greatest stupidity and I think peace is the dream that lives in the heart of everyone wherever he may be in the world, but unfortunately, unlike a family quarrel, it doesn't take two to make a war. It only takes one, unless the other one is prepared to surrender at the first hint of force.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Dream, War, Heart, Family Quarrel

How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of blue pill!-What awful instances of chronic dyspepsia in the characters of Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia and spirituous liquors from society, and you have no crime, or at least so little that you would not consider it worth mentioning.

- Charles Kingsley

topic: Character, Blue, Awful, Family Quarrel