Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“THANKSGIVING DAY. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the… — Knute Rockne Copy Share Image
I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The driver got out smiling. He looked about seventeen or eighteen, and for a second, I had the uneasy feeling it was… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes… — Wilfrid Sheed 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… — Charles Bowers Copy Share Image
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Fixing a sneer on her face, she deliberately lowered her toolbox and let it fall with a terrible clatter. That he jumped… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you.… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a - faces.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess-fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men… — Herbert Newton Casson Copy Share Image
If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Copy is not written. If anyone tells you ‘you write copy’, sneer at them. Copy is not written. Copy is assembled. You… — Eugene Schwartz Copy Share Image
The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It… — Matt Groening 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
Stalkers lips curled into a sneer. "You won't make a move without him, huh? That's embarrassing." "No," I said softly. "It just… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Where are you heading, if you’ve got the choice?” James lifted an invisible sword. “‘Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!’ Like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
