Quotes about Sibling rivalry

When the ten heard about this, they were indignant with the two brothers.

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

My brothers, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you.

The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.

Isaac answered Esau: "Look, I have made him a master over you… . What then can I do for you, my son?" Genesis 27:37

God does not love the younger son more than the elder. In the story the father goes out to the elder son just as he did to the younger, urges him to come in, and says, "My son, you are with me always, and all I have is yours.

All of us were mischievous at some time or another, I more so than any of the rest. [My brother] Philbert and I kept a battle going. ... Even in our fighting, there was a feeling of brotherly union.

Presently she stepped into the kitchen, and Sid, happy in his immunity, reached for the sugar-bowl—a sort of glorying over Tom which was wellnigh unbearable. But Sid's fingers slipped and the bowl dropped and broke. Tom was in ecstasies. In such ecstasies that he even controlled his tongue and was silent. He

Tis dreadful for words and strife to happen between brothers, when they fall into dispute.

Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.