Peevish Quotes

#1. This is Deirdre," said Addison. "She's an emu-raffe, which is a bit like a donkey and a giraffe put together, only with fewer legs and a peevish temper. She's a terrible sore loser at cards," he added in a whisper. "Never play an emu-raffe at cards. Say hello, Deirdre!

Ransom Riggs

#2. I don't know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately annoying. Every drop hit the window with a peevish Am I bothering you? Does this make you cold and wet? Oh, sorry.

Maureen Johnson

#3. And I too change perpetually - now this, now that - now disappointed and peevish because all is not exactly as I had pictured it, and now suddenly discovering that the reality is far more beautiful than I had imagined it.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#4. Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Desiderius Erasmus

#5. Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

Alexander H. Stephens

#6. Whenever a liberal begins a peevish complaint with a throat-clearing equivocation like, "Of course, we all agree," your antennae should go up. This is how liberals couch statements they assume all Americans would demand they make, but which they secretly chafe at.

Ann Coulter

#7. There was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others, as an insult.

Emily Bronte

#8. I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

Robert Hugh Benson

#9. I notice a whiff of Swift in some of my notes. I too am a desponder in my nature, an uneasy, peevish, and suspicious man, although I have my moments of volatility and fou rire.

Vladimir Nabokov

#10. His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.

William Shakespeare

#11. Dowager grumbled a bit about that, using the same peevish

Julia Quinn

#12. For when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#13. A peevish self-willed harlotry it is.

*She's a stubborn little brat.*

William Shakespeare

#14. When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But something happened - was it just the arrogance of power? - that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism.

Rory Bremner

#15. Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.

Mason Cooley

#16. The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.

Emily Bronte

#17. Between waking and being awake there is a moment full of doubt and dream, when you struggle to remember what the place and when the time and whether you really are.
A peevish moment of wonderment as to where the real world lies.

Keri Hulme

#18. My mother plants her hands on her hips, peevish. "Is that the best welcome you can come up with? Why don't you come over here and give your father a hug?" Hug him? Touch him? How can she even suggest it?

Laura Wiess

#19. A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#20. Each day adds a bead
to the ever peevish episodes of frailty,
I try running at an unkempt speed,
returning back like waves into a cruel sea;

Ashfaq Saraf

#21. The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Henry Ward Beecher

#22. Somehow the events set the seal on the day. It became a broken crockery day, a day of people getting under each other's feet and being peevish. Esk's mother dropped a jug that had belonged to her grandmother

Terry Pratchett

#23. But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart.

Julie Powell

#24. He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

Samuel Johnson

#25. The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.

William Shakespeare

#26. Beauty had just squatted under one of the chairs lining the hallway. A small trickle was creeping across the marble floor.
'She's too intelligent to pay mind to me,' Lady Sylvia said blandly. 'All three dogs are French, and they behave just like Frenchmen. Decorative but peevish.

Eloisa James

#27. Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.

Edward Young

#28. I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Mike Mills

#29. We live among the dead until we join them,

Adam Haslett

#30. But some things did not change ...
Courage, for instance. Dedication to a cause. Comradeship. When they were strong and pure, when they came from deep in the bone, those qualities could hold fast against all odds.

Juliet Marillier

#31. I am interested in the complicated choreography of close relationships.

Torill Kove

#32. No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Bernard Baruch

#33. America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.

Paula Gunn Allen

#34. If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#35. One day, you will see that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong.

Ally Carter

#36. The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.

Jeremy Bentham