Contention Quotes

Great contests generally excite great animosities.

You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.]

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.

Believe it or not, when I get in contention I can still hit the shots.

The whole discord of this world consists in discords.

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

The commandment to avoid contention applies to those who are right as well as those who are wrong.

My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

Our contention has always been that Shakespeare is our greatest living author. If he can survive a season on Broadway, he must be.

Your denomination is not defined by a style. So don’t let style become a point of contention.

I'm getting more and more comfortable out on the golf course with the changes I've been making. It's really just a confidence thing in that I love being in contention.

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.