Churlish Quotes

#1. Soon after I left university, I came up with another definition of a literary critic or would be critic: someoone who uses churlish towards the end of an article or review.

Gerald Murnane

#2. If UCL did offer to reinstate me, it would be churlish of me to refuse, but really, my work there was over.

Tim Hunt

#3. boor (which originally just meant "farmer," as in the German Bauer and Dutch boer); villain (from the French vilein, a serf or villager); churlish (from English churl, a commoner); vulgar (common, as in the term vulgate); and ignoble, not an aristocrat.

Steven Pinker

#4. Why the hell did I like him so much?
He was uncivilized.
Churlish.
Uncouth.
And strangely, kind of Sweet

R.K. Lilley

#5. Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

Christopher Morley

#6. When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use to "get their man." Constitutional guarantees are regarded as bothersome "technicalities" that impede honest law enforcers in the performance of their duties.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

#7. Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!

William Shakespeare

#8. This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.

William Shakespeare

#9. Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,
The seasons' difference, as the icy fang
And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,
Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.

William Shakespeare

#10. Emily felt churlish for being disappointed. She

Katie Fforde

#11. The way I viewed it, there were lots of very ugly things in London, so, on the occasions when something beautiful with a glossy coat came along and nudged its cold nose into your hand, it seemed churlish not to take a few moments to celebrate the mere fact of its existence.

Tom Cox

#12. When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.

Philip Yancey

#13. A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

Philip Sidney

#14. Your brother is a beslubbering, churlish, hell-governed princox, and I hope one day he gets the beating he deserves for it. (Maggie)

Kinley MacGregor

#15. I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

Daddy Yankee

#16. We must remain committed to being countercultural where the culture and the truth are at odds with one another. This, and this alone, is what will make Christians truly relevant in the culture.

Anonymous

#17. Just as war cost the Montagues and Capulets their children, it cost Microsoft and Google their dominance: Apple came along and overtook them all. In January 2013, Apple's market capitalization was $500 billion, while Google and Microsoft combined were worth $467 billion. Just

Peter Thiel

#18. Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

Ann Patchett

#19. To sing a wrong note is insignificant, but to sing without passion is unforgivable.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#20. All day long you see those commercials: 'Here's Your Brain, Just Say No' ... and the next commercial is: 'This Bud's For You.'

Bill Hicks

#21. That which we constantly affirm becomes true for us.

Louise L. Hay

#22. Call Loretta Lynch for a vote. Get her confirmed. Put her in place. Let her do her job.

Barack Obama

#23. Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.

Robert McAfee Brown

#24. We were sent into the world alive with beauty. As soon as we choose Beauty, unseen forces conspire to guide and encourage us towards unexpected forms of compassion, healing and creativity.

John O'Donohue

#25. Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.

Rabindranath Tagore

#26. I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Anne Frank