Grapes Are Sour Quotes

#1. I am sure the grapes are sour.

Aesop

#2. My! How the grapes are sour today!" -Rhett Butler

Margaret Mitchell

#3. It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

Frank Black

#4. You have forgotten the doctrine of your own church, is it not so? The cross ... the bread and wine ... the confessional ... only symbols. Without faith, the cross is only wood, the bread baked wheat, the wine sour grapes.

Stephen King

#5. A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.

Sarah Addison Allen

#7. This is agony cried Mr Salteena clutching hold of a table my life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

Daisy Ashford

#8. Discs of umbrellas poured over suburban terraces with the smooth round ebullience of a Chopin waltz. They sat in the distance under the lugubrious dripping elms, elms like maps of Europe, elms frayed at the end like bits of chartreuse wool, elms heavy and bunchy as sour grapes.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#9. From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

Rumi

#10. Your wine is just sour grapes
Pour me a glass anytime I'm not there

Tom Verlaine

#11. Careers are not all up, up, up; do good work, continue to grow as an artist, and opportunity finds you. I have no sour grapes.

John Allison

#12. Sour grapes, the champagne of the intelligentsia.

Gregory Benford

#13. Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

Dorothy Parker

#14. The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth have been set on edge.

Andrew Garve

#15. There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.

Frank Gehry

#16. The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#17. I didn't watch the Emmys because - well, for one, I have been to awards shows, and I understand how it works. For another, sour grapes. Actually, that's probably number one.

Kurt Fuller

#18. I don't want awards. I am not saying this like it's a case of sour grapes. It isn't. I have been to a couple of award functions, and I soon realised that it doesn't give me the kick that it does to others.

Emraan Hashmi

#19. I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

John Hawkes

#20. I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#21. One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.

Mason Cooley

#22. The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.

Neil Kinnock

#23. Although the infertile are entitled to sour grapes, it's against the rules, isn't it, to actually have a baby and spend any time at all on that banished parallel life in which you didn't.

Lionel Shriver

#24. Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#25. I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say.

Mike Tyson

#26. Mind, I congratulate you. You jumped me to sex, translated it to aesthetics, and ended with sour grapes. How dishonest can I be? And all because I don't want to go to work. I'll work my head off to avoid work. Come, mind. This time you don't get away with it - back to the desk.

John Steinbeck

#27. I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

Larry Hovis

#28. In the land of sour grapes, the half-eaten apple is the queen

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#29. There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

Edith Wharton

#30. The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Frederic Raphael

#31. I have to tell you, and I don't mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder.

Roger Daltrey

#32. You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.

Paul Newman

#33. There is this school of thought that says the usage of all mystical and occult powers is bad. I find that thought is usually propounded by people who don't have any powers. It's kind of a sour grapes attitude.

Frederick Lenz