Querulous Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had…
— Peggy Noonan
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One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses.
— Pope Francis
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While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant,…
— Barbara Tuchman
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All successful newpapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon…
— H. L. Mencken
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I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old…
— William Petty
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Politics is the process of getting along with the querulous, the garrulous and the congenitally unlovable.
— Marilyn Moats Kennedy
Who Wrote These Querulous Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 10 Querulous Quotes as follows: