Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda. — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
A sneer can often reveal far more about the sneerer than the object of their derision. — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively. — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace.… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Warlock D. J. Prod of Didsbury says: “My wife used to sneer at my feeble charms, but one month into your fabulous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer; To everybody's prejudice I know a… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
She is not old, she is not young, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue. The haggard cheek, the hungering eye, The poisoned… — William Watson Copy Share Image
The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate; He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the… — Ernest Thayer Copy Share Image
A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more! Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore! And all… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think I'll always be linked to comedy. There is something about it that's such a beautiful thing. The world of drama… — Doc Brown Copy Share Image
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
We must be amusing at all times and sneer at those who express their real feelings; it's dangerous for a tribe to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
