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The QUARREL of lovers is the renewal of love
Cf. TERENCE
Andria
l. 555
amantium irae amoris integratiost
, lovers' quarrels are a strengthening of love.
c
1520
Terence in English
C1
The angers of louers renew love agayn.
1576
Paradise of Dainty Devises
42
Now haue I founde, the prouerbe true to proue, The fallyng out of faithfull frends, is the renuyng of love.
1624
Anatomy of Melancholy
(ed. 2)
III
. ii.
She would .. picke quarrells vpon no occasion, because she would be reconciled to him againe … The falling out of lovers is the renuing of loue.
1754
Grandison
III
. xviii.
The falling out of Lovers .. is the renewal of Love. Are we not now better friends than if we had never differed?
1874
Phineas Redux
II. xxix.
She knew that ‘the quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love’. At any rate, the woman always desires that it may be so, and endeavours to reconcile the parted ones.
1905
Graphic
(Christmas) 14 (
caption
)
The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.
1980
Death of Favourite Girl
ii.
Bear in mind, ladies, that a lovers' quarrel sometimes signifies the rebirth of love.
love
Andria
l. 555
amantium irae amoris integratiost
, lovers' quarrels are a strengthening of love.
c1520
Terence in English
C1
The angers of louers renew love agayn.
1576
Paradise of Dainty Devises
42
Now haue I founde, the prouerbe true to proue, The fallyng out of faithfull frends, is the renuyng of love.
1624
Anatomy of Melancholy
(ed. 2)
III
. ii.
She would .. picke quarrells vpon no occasion, because she would be reconciled to him againe … The falling out of lovers is the renuing of loue.
1754
Grandison
III
. xviii.
The falling out of Lovers .. is the renewal of Love. Are we not now better friends than if we had never differed?
1874
Phineas Redux
II. xxix.
She knew that ‘the quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love’. At any rate, the woman always desires that it may be so, and endeavours to reconcile the parted ones.
1905
Graphic
(Christmas) 14 (
caption
)
The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.
1980
Death of Favourite Girl
ii.
Bear in mind, ladies, that a lovers' quarrel sometimes signifies the rebirth of love.
lovequarrel
You cannot get a QUART into a pint pot
A
quart
is an imperial measure of two pints. The metaphorical phrase
to get
(or
put
)
a quart into a pint pot
is also used.
1896
Daily News
23 July 4
They had been too ambitious. They had attempted what he might describe in homely phrase as putting a quart into a pint pot.
1934
Execution of Diamond Deutsch
xi.
He whistled thoughtfully. ‘You can't get a quart into a pint pot—is that it?’ asked the South African officer, quick to see the reason.
1948
Embroidery Mary
xi.
When they .. got down to .. packing it was found to be a case of ‘quarts into pint pots will not go.’
1974
Child in Forest
I
. 101
A quart may not go into a pint pot, but my feet had to go into those boots.
great and small
;
possibility and impossibility
quart
is an imperial measure of two pints. The metaphorical phrase
to get
(or
put
)
a quart into a pint pot
is also used.
1896Daily News
23 July 4
They had been too ambitious. They had attempted what he might describe in homely phrase as putting a quart into a pint pot.
1934
Execution of Diamond Deutsch
xi.
He whistled thoughtfully. ‘You can't get a quart into a pint pot—is that it?’ asked the South African officer, quick to see the reason.
1948
Embroidery Mary
xi.
When they .. got down to .. packing it was found to be a case of ‘quarts into pint pots will not go.’
1974
Child in Forest
I
. 101
A quart may not go into a pint pot, but my feet had to go into those boots.
great and small;
possibility and impossibility
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