Quotes About Curmudgeon

#1. I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.

Bill Keller

#2. The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.

James Hillman

#3. In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

V.S. Naipaul

#4. People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

James Garner

#5. I love playing a curmudgeon. I just love playing a sour guy.

Zach Galifianakis

#6. This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no doubt about it.

Stacy Keach

#7. I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it.

Jonathan Frid

#8. It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating
after all, they are women
but they cannot be curmudgeons.

Cleveland Amory

#9. But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

Maynard James Keenan

#10. Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.

Paul Fussell

#11. I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.

James Gibbons

#12. I myself hope to live long enough to graduate from being a 'bad boy,' which I once was, to becoming a curmudgeon....

Christopher Hitchens

#13. Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn't wake up, who will never see this day. Try to feel lucky that this is not you.

Margaret Cho

#14. One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do, as well as the extent to which he is able to change his behavior.

Ellis Paul Torrance

#15. Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

W.C. Fields

#16. When you focus on miracles you will be manipulated

Sunday Adelaja

#17. I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.

Julie Bowen

#18. HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.
NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well.

George Bernard Shaw

#19. That's the thing about the future. It could turn out to be anything. And everything.

Terry Pratchett

#20. What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

John Kennedy Toole

#22. Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

Mignon McLaughlin