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Peevish Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a…
- It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other…
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- He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that… — Samuel Johnson
- I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct. — Robert Hugh Benson
- Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger. — Mason Cooley
- Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm. — Alexander H. Stephens
- But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart. — Julie Powell
- The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice. — William Shakespeare
- Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. — Desiderius Erasmus
- Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys… — Bess Streeter Aldrich