#Conflict Quotes

“Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!”

“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!”

“War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.”

“Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.”

“Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.”

“Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.”

“Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.”

“These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.”

“Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.”

“Two women placed together makes cold weather.”

“Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not,I care not for thee, Kate: this is no worldTo play with mammets and to tilt with lips:We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.”

“From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night,The hum of either army stilly sounds,That the fixed sentinels almost receiveThe secret whispers of each other's watch.Fire answers fire, and through their play flamesEach battle sees the other's umbered face.Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighsPiercing the night's dull ear; and from the tentsThe armorers accomplishing the knights,With busy hammers closing rivets up,Give dreadful note of preparation.”

“Though inclination be as sharp as will,My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,And, like a man to double business bound,I stand in pause where I shall first begin,And both neglect.”

“They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them”

“BewareOf entrance to a quarrel.”

“where civil blood makes civil hands unclean”

“DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.”

“My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.”

“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.”

“Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.”

“And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.”

“I do desire we may be better strangers.”

“The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.”

“My only love sprung from my only hate.”

“I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace.”

“And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.”

“The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.”

“Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore”

“I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.”

“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”

“No, by my soul, I never in my lifeDid hear a challenge urged more modestly,Unless a brother should a brother dareTo gentle exercise and proof of arms.”

“The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.”

“Contention, like a horse,Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,And bears down all before him.”

“Light and lust are deadly enemies.”

“Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.”

“Shall we upon the footing of our landSend fair-play orders, and make compromise,Insinuation, parley, and base truce,To arms invasive?”

“I heard a bustling rumor like a fray,And the wind blows it from the Capitol.”

“Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.”

“Good words are better than bad strokes.”

“We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.”

“I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.”

“So shaken as we are, so wan with care,Find we a time for frighted peace to pantAnd breathe short-winded accents of new broilsTo be commenced in stronds afar remote.”

“War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.”

“Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.”

“I will not trust you, I, Nor longer stay in your curst company. Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray, My legs are longer though, to run away.”

“... I am At war 'twixt will and will not.”

“Between the acting of a dreadful thingAnd the first motion, all the interim isLike a phantasma or a hideous dream.”

“All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.”

“This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.”

“Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.”