Henry Clay Quotes

If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.

For "The Intervention" I came up with a back-story and Clea [Duvall] was like, "No." And I was like, "I don't care."

I should be the reigning champion. I punch a guy 300 times, he punches me a couple and they call him the champion? In what parallel universe does that make you the winner? I am the champion. I’ve been the champion. Anderson’s ribs have the exact same problem that his hands and his feet have, they’re attached to a cowardly person.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

The grammarians are arguing.

Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

No, we did not do this, and we are not with you.

I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics.

I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.

What are you boys doing?” she asks, as if we’re still little kids messing around. “Arguin’,” Carlos says matter-of-factly.

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

Olivia: You didn't even know I was there! Harry: Excuse me, yes I did.

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

Mr. [Donald] Trump has every right to say that didn't happen.

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

One side sticks to the facts, and the other side is close to playing with its poop.

And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.

I’m not going anywhere with you, you little shoemaker,” I said (Rachel to Trent)

With John Wayne, we argued all the time and we made four pictures.

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

I told all four [Congressional leaders] that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.

Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.