Surly Quotes

34 quotes by 32 authors

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of… — John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to… — Don Meyer
All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone… — Edward Abbey
He really just wanted to go about his business. I would put Eddie Murray in the same category as Andre Dawson. He would like to… — Gary Carter
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. — John Millington Synge
A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by those things -… — Gracie Allen
I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant. — Al McGuire
I was kind of like the Rhea Perlman of the bar. I was like Carla on 'Cheers.' People were more afraid of me. There was… — Melissa Rauch
When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare. — Robert Burns
No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am… — William Shakespeare
The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who… — Charles Churchill
he knows too much about himself to subject her to a morning after, when he will be cold, surly, impatient to be alone. — J M Coetzee
Very slowly, she peeked around the tree trunk. Saw a slim, petite figure, flanked by two very large, very dangerous-looking soldier of fortune types picking… — Cindy Gerard
I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the… — David James Duncan
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the… — Ronald Reagan
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the… — Maya Angelou
No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am… — William Shakespeare
O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in… — Andrew Lang

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