John Steinbeck

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

American Author

John McCarthy

The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.

American Politician

Buddha

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

Leader

Buffalo Bill

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

American Celebrity

Jerome K. Jerome

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

English Author

Deepak Chopra

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

American Speaker

All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

Suggests a person has an unpleasant character, causing discomfort or annoyance.

Negative Connotation

Implies a person may initiate disputes or escalate situations unnecessarily.

Provokes Conflict

Can describe someone's temporary behavior due to mood rather than a permanent trait.

Emotional State

 Was it from a medicine used to treat his bladder infection? A residue from his alchemy experiments? Or did his quarrelsome coworker Johannes Kepler poison him to acquire his data? We may never know, but the next time you think scientists lead boring lives, dig a little deeper.

Tycho Brahe, the...

 self-indulgent guesswork about matters that nobody can be certain of one way or the other, but which makes people quarrelsome and stupidly sectarian.

Karen Armstrong: 2008...

 old shells are highly prized and this one is occupied by a sarcastic fringehead these fish are exceptionally quarrelsome they have

Quarrelsome