Disapproving Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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I'll join you, sir. You'll need help finding your way about the estate."His lips tightened into a disapproving line. "Begging your pardon, Lady Rosalind, but…
— Sabrina Jeffries
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I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me.…
— Dominic West
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A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of…
— Charles Darwin
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A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
— Seamus Heaney
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It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.
— Francis Maude
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She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She…
— Nicole Krauss
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That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now…
— William H. Gass
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Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.
— Lisa Kleypas
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People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to…
— John Irving
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There was Kir, red hair combed back and That Expression on his sharp face. Even his freckles looked serious. I'd given up wondering how a…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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Fine - I said huffily. - But I hope I'm at least allowed to fly around the corridors during lunch hour. Gabriel threw me a…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones. "... Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had…
— Lisa Kleypas
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My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.
— Rumi
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Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally…
— Shannon Hale
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We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising…
— Grant Morrison
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I don’t mind the disapproving ones so much. It’s the tolerant ones I can’t stand, the ones who smile at Rose, who speak to her…
— Franny Billingsley
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Adrian ordered a martini, earning disapproving looks from his father and me. "It's barely noon," said Nathan. "I know," said Adrian. "I'm surprised I held…
— Richelle Mead
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Hyacinth,†Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences.†Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression.…
— Julia Quinn
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So, tell me,†he whispers. “How fast did you climb those fourteen stories?†Thomas makes a disapproving sound in his throat, but I break into…
— Marie Lu
Who Wrote These Disapproving Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 23 Disapproving Quotes as follows: