Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Phil [Wood] was very passionate. Very committed. He felt very blessed that the people that cared about him and took him aside...… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
he knows too much about himself to subject her to a morning after, when he will be cold, surly, impatient to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
If your master is surly, from getting up early (And tempers are short in the morning), An inopportune joke is enough to… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Life is a system of relations rather than a positive and independent existence; and he who would be happy himself and make… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
I really hate Squires. (Syra) (She pulled another flat bolt out and loaded it, then shot it at Otto. Moving so fast… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime… — Judith Kelman Copy Share Image
I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... And, while with silent, lifting mind… — John Gillespie Magee, Jr Copy Share Image
I've inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father's hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the… — John Gillespie Magee, Jr Copy Share Image
We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a "surly, illmannered, badtempered fellow." ... Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Very slowly, she peeked around the tree trunk. Saw a slim, petite figure, flanked by two very large, very dangerous-looking soldier of… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
“The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you felt when you were petty with friends… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Like an animal, cancer sleeps, prowls, hibernates, turns surly or placid. — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
The voice for 'Surly' is, of course, very close to my own voice, but it's informed a lot by this story, by… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Books are savaged and careers destroyed by surly snots who write anonymous reviews and publishers can't be bothered to protest this institutionalized… — Warren Murphy Copy Share Image
If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at… — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
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