Top 27 Derisively Quotes
#1. Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
William Hazlitt
#2. He ended up on his own. I thought, he's got rid of everybody else, he's going to get rid of himself and he did." "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times.
Tony Hancock
#3. Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.
Winifred Holtby
#4. Ditto, Ethan said, a surprising amount of venom in his voice. I bit back a proud smile; he seemed to be adopting a little of my snark.
Chloe Neill
#5. Women are crazy. Go didn't consider herself part of the general category of women, a word she used derisively.
Gillian Flynn
#7. Both of them smiled derisively. But Francisco seemed to laugh at things because he saw something much greater. Jim laughed as if he wanted to let nothing remain great.
Ayn Rand
#8. I want something that'll give me the stamina of a young werewolf, the vision of a shaman, the thoughts of a serial killer and the gentleness of a hungry vampire bat.
Warren Ellis
#10. Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care.
John Fowles
#11. Loghain shook his head in disbelief. "Maker's breath, man, aren't you suppose to have some dignity? Somewhere?"
"Me? Dignity?"
"Being the supposed future King and such."
"I think Rowan took my dignity."
She snorted derisively, folding her arms. "There was nothing else worth having.
David Gaider
#13. Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.
Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.
Simon Armitage
#14. It's complicated," I said in defense, hands going up to show surrender.
"Talk slowly," Jenna retorted derisively.
"Okay, I deserved that," I admitted.
Laura Kreitzer
#15. In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.
R.C. Sproul
#16. By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
Edmund Burke
#17. We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.
Charles Kettering
#18. After listening intently for a few seconds, he turned to me. "North Vietnam?" He shook his head derisively. "Very, very bad." He listened some more, then denounced Brezhnev.
Rob Reid
#19. Sammy suns?" Sam laughed derisively. "They might as well be candles.
Michael Grant
#22. I never want to possibly take another life in my hands.
Nicole Richie
#23. what? - the sky growing black, the wind moaning, the scrim of sand that blew across the empty lot forming itself into tooth and mouth and open jaw. "What are you afraid of?" More derisively than he'd meant it.
Alice McDermott
#24. Do you believe in an afterlife? Do your personal beliefs include a life after death? - no matter how they phrase their snotty test, do the following. Simply look them in the eye, snort derisively, and retort, Frankly, only a provincial ignoramus would even believe in death.
Chuck Palahniuk
#25. I laughed derisively.
"For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious."
"I was laughing."
"Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit."
"Derisively," I explained.
P.G. Wodehouse
#26. Am sometimes hard-pressed to explain why I've stayed, not only in the same place but in the same building.
Orhan Pamuk
#27. I beg your pardon. Sometimes, it's true I can be stubborn.'
'Sometimes?' she added derisively.
'Quite often,' he tempered.
S.N. Lemoing
