Artist; why don't you work for them with new brushes? you work best with old? I contend, sir, that you can't. Does my housemaid clean best with an old broom? Do my clerks write best with old pens? Don't color up, and don't look as if you were going to quarrel with me! You can't quarrel with me. If you were fifty times as irritable a man as you look, you couldn't quarrel with me.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
"No; at Paris. You know I can sing--not very well; but I have a voice, and most Frenchwomen (excuse the impertinence) have none. I met with a friend, and got introduced to a manager; and I have been singing at the theater--not the great parts, only the second. Your amiable countrywomen could not screech me down on the stage, but they intrigued against me successfully behind the scenes. In short, I quarreled with our principal lady, quarreled with the manager, quarreled with my friend; and here I am back at Pisa, with a little oney saved in my pocket, and no great notion what I am to do next."英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
Nora laughed again. " Why, you're a regular little kid. Do you mean to say you've come out here sulking alone because of some nursery quarrel? " He was ruffled by her manner. It did not contain the cheering he required. " Oh, I don't know that I'm such a regular little kid," he said, sullenly. " The quarrel was not a nursery quarrel."英文原著 · 《Active Service》
"Mother doesn't fear it, you know. She--the darling-- she lives in a sort of dream. I don't want her to wake from it. But how can I get accustomed to the thought that perhaps I shan't see Hermann again? I must get accustomed to it: I've got to live with it, and not quarrel with it."
He took up her hand, enclosing it in his. "But, one doesn't quarrel with the big things of life," he said. "Isn't it so? We haven't any quarrel with things like death and duty.英文原著 · 《Michael》
Bud was not a pretty sight. Four days and nights of trying to see how much whisky he could drink, and how long he could play poker without going to sleep or going broke, had left their mark on his face and his trembling hands. His eyes were puffy and red, and his cheeks were mottled, and his lips were fevered and had lost any sign of a humorous quirk at the corners. He looked ugly; as if he would like nothing better than an excuse to quarrel with Cash--since Cash was the only person at hand to quarrel with.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
It was a foolish quarrel, but it was that kind of foolish quarrel which is very apt to harden into a lasting one.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
So it turns out Vice Chancellor Laughing Gassy got rabies from quarrelling with an old raccoon.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Oh, well, I'm--I'm sorry about your vegetables, but that pine shields my view of the purcells' backyard, and if you had ever seen mr. Purcell sunbathe, well, you'd know exactly what that tree means to me. well, I don't want to quarrel.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》