The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Like an animal, cancer sleeps, prowls, hibernates, turns surly or placid. — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing, I tend to get depressed and a little bit surly. And then when I'm writing, suddenly I feel… — George Saunders 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
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
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 love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect. — Michel de Montaigne 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
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
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
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget… — Ronald Reagan 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
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He really just wanted to go about his business. I would put Eddie Murray in the same category as Andre Dawson. He… — Gary Carter Copy Share Image
I had the heaviest paper round in Ilkley, West Yorks, and if you look at my shoulders one is still lower than… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
The service in L.A. is the best. You don't get sarcastic, surly, fed-up waiters and waitresses like you do in England. They're… — Ricky Gervais 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
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
Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader.… — Audrey Niffenegger 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… — Anonymous 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
“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
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
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
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
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 crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow. — William Makepeace Thackeray 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
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
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
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
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
