I never take my own side in a quarrel.

I never take my own side in a quarrel

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

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

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.

He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.