Sneer Quotes
78 Sneer quotes by 72 unique authors
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Only little boys and old men sneer at love.
— Louis Auchincloss
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A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon…
— Leon Uris
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It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial . .…
— Paul Gallico
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There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley,…
— Jan Morris
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Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear, And scoff at…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of it,…
— Gerald Stanley Lee
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Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
— Billy Bragg
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An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of…
— Rafael Sabatini
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In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only,…
— E. M. Forster
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If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of…
— Charles Dickens
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Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up…
— Anne Lamott
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I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own "pond," confident that…
— Michio Kaku
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Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in…
— Edward de Bono
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at their core, represent…
— Greg Rucka
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Copy is not written. If anyone tells you ‘you write copy’, sneer at them. Copy is not written. Copy is assembled. You do not write…
— Eugene Schwartz
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You know the expression, "It's not personal; it's business." We sneer at such rot. All business is personal, all the time.
— Chris Kilham
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My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But…
— J. Robert Lennon
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Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!
— Euripides
Who Wrote These Sneer Quotes
72 authors contributed a total of 78 Sneer Quotes, led by these top contributors: