Chagrin Quotes

#1. God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator.

Elie Faure

#2. As he was pummeled into one tight spot after another, emerging each time breathless and in amazed chagrin, Bryan flushed, with spots of anger in his cheeks. His whole body sagged. Before our very eyes, he became a beaten man.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#3. GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. But love is strange, as they used to say at the Chameleon Club. Even those of us who value intelligence over appearance have discovered, to our chagrin, that a high IQ doesn't necessarily translate into kindness or even conscience.

Francine Prose

#5. I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too much patience of this kind.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. I'm a chronic ad-libber. So whoever hires me, often to their chagrin, should know that I will be talking a bunch of smack.

Jay Baruchel

#7. To my grandmother, chagrin was a genuine physical disease. Like a hurt leg or a broken arm. To treat chagrin, you drank tea from leaves that only my grandmother and other old wise women could recognize.

Edwidge Danticat

#8. Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.

George Thorogood

#9. I tried to bring up boyfriends and sex. Her great dark eyes surveyed me with emptiness and a kind of chagrin that reached back generations and generations in her blood from not having done what was crying to be done
whatever it was, and everybody knows what it was.

Jack Kerouac

#10. We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've got a popcorn shop above a waterfall and parades that come through town. It's all-American.

Nick Robinson

#11. Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#12. Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin of my staff.

Joseph J. Lhota

#13. The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.

Jasper Fforde

#14. Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.
[Fr., Le ciel me prive d'une epouse qui ne m'a jamais donne d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort.]

Louis XIV

#15. I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.

Ed Asner

#16. Judge of my chagrin and all that sort of thing, therefore, when, tottering to my room and switching on the light, I observed the foul features of young Bingo all over the pillow.

P.G. Wodehouse

#17. I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else on that front.

Thomas L. Dumm

#18. Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.

D.H. Lawrence

#19. The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.

Rod Parsley

#20. In Buddhist writings, mention is often made of "the abyss of birth." An abyss indeed, a gulf into which we do not fall but from which, instead, we emerge, to our universal chagrin.

Emil Cioran

#21. I wondered to myself why no one else had seen him standing so far away, before he was suddenly, impossibly saving my life. With chagrin, I realized the probable cause - no one else was as aware of Edward as I always was. No one else watched him the way I did. How pitiful.

Stephenie Meyer

#22. Am I the only human on board this ship?"
To her deepest chagrin, he hesitated. And when he finally answered, it wasn't what she wanted to hear and gave her no comfort whatsoever. "Define the word 'human.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#23. He had a dazzling talent for spending millions without increasing mankind's stores of anything but chagrin.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#24. I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

Cy Coleman

#25. GREAT LEADER'S DIRECTION FLASHES WILL SHOWER EVERY GOAL POME ON OBEISANCE LOINISATION.ANY CHAGRIN POTHER??

Various

#26. The press in America has never been stronger and never been freer and never been more vibrant, sometimes to my chagrin, and a lot of times to my delight.

George W. Bush

#27. I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward.

Henry Villard

#28. Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be the right kind of monster for you, Bella.

Stephenie Meyer

#29. Now love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at his torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#30. When something or someone you dearly love is snatched away from you, something of you go with it. You become emotionally amputated

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#31. When the TV version of Annie came on, I was drawn to it. It was the struggle of this poor kid in this environment and how her life changed. It immediately resonated.

Jay-Z

#32. Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

Twyla Tharp

#33. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

Mary Lydon Simonsen

#34. Pleasure to meet you too, mister. Wake me up when we get to Singapore.

Annie Seaton

#35. In 1788, the Chimney Sweepers Act was passed in Parliament, preventing master sweeps from employing children under eight (children over eight were allowed to be apprenticed).

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#36. Traveling around, it's difficult to follow much TV. Mainly I'm somebody who watches sports.

Retief Goosen