Top 24 Quotes About Petulance

#1. Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

Samuel Richardson

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#2. That's the quickest way to my heart: Laughter.

Ryan Lochte

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#3. It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.

Jane Austen

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#4. I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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#5. Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

Samuel Johnson

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#6. With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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#7. She climbed on the kitchen table and when he declined to join her she stamped out a pouting solo piece containing equal parts of petulance and release.

Salman Rushdie

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#8. Why do we have to go to Summerwind Abbey tonight? Why couldn't we have waited until I at least combed the sand out of my hair? She heard the whine in her voice and realized she'd been reduced to petulance. With any luck at all, she'd become a nag and make Jermyn a dreadful wife.

Christina Dodd

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#9. The petulance that relatives show towards each other is in truth directed against that intangible Causality which has shaped the situation no less for the offenders than the offended, but is too elusive to be discerned and cornered by poor humanity in irritated mood.

Thomas Hardy

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#10. It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.

Walter Savage Landor

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#11. Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.

Zoroaster

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#12. The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

Malcolm Gladwell

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#13. Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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#14. Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#15. You remind me of him. He was the best man I have ever known.

C.S. Pacat

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#16. One hundred years of age doesn't mean you have to bury your inner child. You age better if you hold onto a little petulance and let it out now and again.

R.R. Virdi

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#17. Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football. This fella Ronaldo is a cod.

Eamon Dunphy

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#18. Men: their petulance, their sexual deviance, the way they resorted to violence when they wanted to control

Robert Bryndza

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#19. But the king was frowning. "I expected you a month ago."
Aedion actually had the nerve to shrug. "Apologies. The Staghorns were slammed with a final winter storm. I left when I could."
Every person in the hall held their breath.

Sarah J. Maas

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#20. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.

Sun Tzu

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#21. Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.

Steve Schirripa

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#22. The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

Gilbert Murray

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#23. Deprecation always waits to be disputed, and, if the disputation does not come, becomes petulance.

Eleanor Catton

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#24. Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die ... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.

Ashley Montagu

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