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
A ward, and still in bonds, one day I stole abroad; It was high spring, and all the way Primrosed and hung… — Henry Vaughan 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
I was kind of like the Rhea Perlman of the bar. I was like Carla on 'Cheers.' People were more afraid of… — Melissa Rauch Copy Share Image
Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels,… — Emily Bronte 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
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
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
Winter is on the road to spring. Some think it a surly road. I do not. A primrose road to spring were… — William Alfred Quayle 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
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
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
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
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
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
Like an animal, cancer sleeps, prowls, hibernates, turns surly or placid. — Marni Jackson 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
I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest. — George Berkeley 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
