Quotes About Disapproving

#1. The first intimation I had that things were about to hot up was a pained and disapproving cough from the neighbourhood of the carpet.

P.G. Wodehouse

#2. My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.

Rumi

#3. He felt a killing hate for the stupid, ordinary, disapproving people who kept him from doing what he wanted to do. "Someday I am going to have things just like I want," he said to himself. "And if any moralizing son of a bitch gives me any static, they will fish him out of the river.

William S. Burroughs

#4. The absorbed, disapproving regard of the middle-aged woman for her own face disappeared as he came up. ('The Snow Heart')

Elspeth Davie

#5. I'm all about that shit."
Mom shoots me the Disapproving-Mom-Subtle-Lip-Frown.
"I'm all about that poop," I correct delicately.

Sara Wolf

#6. The only guaranteed result of having an affair would be to add yet another disapproving woman to his life.

Jonathan Franzen

#7. He was a thin, elegant-looking man with precise symmetrical features and the hushed, disapproving manner of a senior librarian.

Alastair Reynolds

#8. Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.

Mustafa Akyol

#9. Mom stopped reading, closed the book, and started laughing her ass off. Behind her a bunch of old dudes reading newspapers looked up at her, all disapproving, like she'd just farted or something.

Walter Sorrells

#10. Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel that my father, had he lived longer, might have been a touch disapproving of some of my career - I think he might have tutted a bit at 'Men Behaving Badly.'

Martin Clunes

#11. Disapproving of things is all right. But you mustn't disapprove of people. It cuts you off.

Iris Murdoch

#12. That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#13. A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Seamus Heaney

#14. Gran! Gran?' yelled Jess, racing upstairs. She looked everywhere. Nothing. No aged person. Only Rasputin, looking startled and disapproving. 'Where's Gran, Rasputin? For goodness' sake! Have you eaten her?' cried Jess. Rasputin looked shocked and innocent.

Sue Limb

#15. It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

Robertson Davies

#16. You sure are quick to strip, boy," Dad said, clearly
disapproving. "Lemme get this straight.

Shannon Delany

#17. Knowing when and where to sit is something every young executive should learn. A junior person who comes barging into a room and takes any seat he wants catches the disapproving eye of senior management.

Letitia Baldrige

#18. In light matters
matters of small consequence, like religion and politics and such things
he never acquired a conviction that could survive a disapproving remark from a cat.

Mark Twain

#19. Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones.
" ... Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her."
"Who was it?"
"His own wife."
"Oh, dear.

Lisa Kleypas

#20. Adrian ordered a martini, earning disapproving looks from his father and me.
'It's barely noon,' said Nathan.
'I know,' said Adrian. 'I'm surprised I held out that long too.

Richelle Mead

#21. I do not accept drinks from disapproving gentlemen.

Holly Golightly

#22. Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?

Shannon Hale

#23. There was Kir, red hair combed back and That Expression on his sharp face. Even his freckles looked serious. I'd given up wondering how a freckle-faced teenager could look so much like a disapproving granny.

Lilith Saintcrow

#24. Ah, there's the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.

Lisa Kleypas

#25. So whether you're up against a wall in your business, or if Facebook is disapproving every ad you create, you've got to think like a winner and find a solution. There's always a way.

Nick Unsworth

#26. People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.

John Irving

#27. Why was the judgment of the disapproving so valuable?

Shannon Hale

#28. Fine - I said huffily. - But I hope I'm at least allowed to fly around the corridors during lunch hour.
Gabriel threw me a disapproving look. I waited for him to get my joke, but his eyes remained serious. I sighed. Much as I loved him, Gabriel could be totally lacking in any sense of humor.

Alexandra Adornetto

#29. ...her tone more disapproving than dismayed.

Kim Edwards

#30. As they left the shop, Mma Ramotswe made amends and told Mma Makutsi that she really thought the blue shoes very beautiful. There was no point in disapproving of a purchase once the deed had been done.

Alexander McCall Smith

#31. It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

Francis Maude

#32. I hated his religion and its cold disapproving gaze, its malevolence that cloaked itself in pretended kindness, and its allegiance to a god who would drain the joy from the world by naming it sin,

Bernard Cornwell

#33. On the whole, a woman isn't keen on her mother-in-law if she's controlling, disapproving, or interfering. Mine is a triple major in the "ings" and took extra night classes in calculating just for kicks. The woman is a hate nerd.

Stephanie Klein

#34. I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.

Dominic West

#35. She turned on me a flatteringly protracted but a wiltingly disapproving gaze, & then went inside, humming a light song to indicate the value she placed upon my existence.

O. Henry

#36. Maybe that's all she saw, the end of her suffering, the black, blank silence of the departed. No more bells, no more noises, no more voices and their terrible, disapproving faces. No past, no future, no more sad todays. No tomorrows.

James Preller

#37. A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

Charles Darwin

#38. Sometimes my mum is very disapproving of my comedy.

Rebel Wilson

#39. I came here as a son seeking his father's approval, hoping you could recognize what she and I have. But, it appears you're business as usual.

Nicole Gulla