Family Quarrel Quotes

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

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  Cyril Connolly

  Nature   Men   Literature  

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

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  Dodie Smith

  Funny   Family   Heart  

  Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120

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• 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.

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  Ronald Reagan

  Dream   War   Heart  

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• 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.

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  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Family   Home   Skins  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald’s Greatest Short Stories): A Collection of short stories from the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.185, e-artnow

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• 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.

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  Ismail Kadaré

  Days Like This   Envy   Mind  

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• 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.

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  Charles Kingsley

  Character   Blue   Pills  

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• 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.

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  Mignon McLaughlin

  Family   Being Thankful   Understanding  

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

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  Jean Racine

  Love   Latin   Renewal  

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