Cantankerous Quotes
11 quotes by 10 authors
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Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be…
— David Brin
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
— Zhuangzi
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Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.
— David Ogilvy
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As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.
— William McFee
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The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration;…
— William McFee
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I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key.…
— David Cronenberg
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I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.
— Ariel Pink
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A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press, must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the right of the people…
— Murray I Gurfein
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Shoot out his way, escape, he's fabulous. Jamaican most wanted, he's dangerous. People dem a say this is one cantankerous boy.
— Beenie Man
Who Wrote These Cantankerous Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 11 Cantankerous Quotes as follows: