Chiefs Quote by Edwin Percy Whipple

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

— Eric Metaxas

Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable…

— Susan Sontag

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

— Ambrose Bierce

A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat.

— Stephen Hawking

If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the…

— John Cheever

“The group of people that are insulting the society with ungodliness are those that are out rightly known with ungodliness and those that try…

— Sunday Adelaja

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…

— Edward Abbey

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

— George Eliot

The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation.…

— Edward Gibbon

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is…

— Raoul Vaneigem

I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a "surly, illmannered, badtempered fellow." ... Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer…

— Edward Abbey

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

— Mason Cooley