Sneer Quotes

78 quotes by 72 authors

In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a - faces. But in the… — Mother Teresa
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Will none wipe the sneer of the face of the cosmos? — Poul Anderson
There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting… — Arthur Helps
Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life,… — William Wordsworth
The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most… — Haruki Murakami
The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is… — George William Curtis
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off… — Raymond Chandler
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and… — Charles Bowers
The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter. — Oliver Goldsmith
How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it. — Piers Anthony
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach… — Knute Rockne
We must be amusing at all times and sneer at those who express their real feelings; it's dangerous for a tribe to allow its members… — Paulo Coelho
When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world and its problems… — Jonathan Franzen
If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he will leave the… — Chuck Jones
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. — Vachel Lindsay
The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously… — Matt Groening
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate.… — Leslie Charteris

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