Petulant Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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On his refusal to deal with Keith Primeau: We refuse to pay a prima donna, a petulant, pouting player who had 30 goals last year…
— Peter Karmanos, Jr.
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There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators,…
— Abraham Maslow
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Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.
— George Washington
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Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long.
— Nathaniel Parker
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Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the…
— Louise Brooks
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The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for…
— Karen Russell
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Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.
— Alexander H. Stephens
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Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
— William Barclay
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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to…
— Bill Vaughan
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she…
— David Nicholls
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Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt a little proud…
— Anna Godbersen
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He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Who Wrote These Petulant Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 Petulant Quotes as follows: