Quotes About Curmudgeon

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

Christopher Hitchens

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

Bill Keller

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

James Gibbons

#4. 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

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

Paul Fussell

#6. 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

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

W.C. Fields

#8. 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

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

Sunday Adelaja

#10. 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

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

Jonathan Frid

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

Stacy Keach

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

Zach Galifianakis

#14. 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

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

James Garner

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

V.S. Naipaul

#17. 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

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

Terry Pratchett

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

John Kennedy Toole

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

Mignon McLaughlin

#22. 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