Sour Quotes

222 Sour quotes by 195 unique authors

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb.… — Truman Capote
Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years… — Larry McMurtry
Sometimes I think that love is one big fairy tale. I wonder if people who say they are in love, if – really – they’ve… — Elizabeth Chandler
One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever… — Sharon M. Draper
Once off the bush The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair That all the lovely… — Seamus Heaney
Southern women see no point in the hard way. Life is hard enough. So we add a little sugar to the sour. Which is not… — Allison Glock
… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of… — Amos Oz
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in… — Jane Austen
When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just… — Dr. Seuss
Eat bitter, taste sweet," Frank said. "I hate that proverb." "But it's true. What do they call it these days---no pain, no gain? Same concept.… — Rick Riordan
Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it… — Buster Keaton
Vee: And I'm not going to let you sit at home all afternoon with your sour face on. Nora: I don't have a sour face.… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour. — Dorothy Parker
I should have told You before talking in terms of Forever that any given day wears me out and works me sour, that there are… — Buddy Wakefield
A small girl became increasingly paralysed by her parents' frequently violent rows. Sometimes she would spend hours standing completely still in the toilet, simply because… — Sarah Kane
September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her chest, so bitter and sour. Poor child.… — Catherynne M. Valente
For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is… — Catherynne M. Valente
He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I… — William Shakespeare
The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently. — Donald Barthelme
Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons run? Saucy pedantic… — John Donne
Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last… — Horace
Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them... — Aristotle
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. — Pearl Bailey
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Who Wrote These Sour Quotes

195 authors contributed a total of 222 Sour Quotes, led by these top contributors: