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Acrimony Quotes

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

Horace
Acrimony, Settling, Ridicule
"Satires", Book I. 10. 14, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 673-74, 1922.

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.

George Washington
Differences, Religion, Acrimony
George Washington (1858). “The Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts : with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.309

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

Emile M. Cioran
Devil, Acrimony, Caprice

It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.

Clifford Stoll
Flames, Hobbies, Acrimony

All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.

Samuel Johnson
Understanding, Triumph, Acrimony
Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.196

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