Rancorous Quotes

#1. Some see in our rancorous politics a surfeit of moral conviction: too many people believe too deeply, too stridently, in their own convictions and want to impose them on everyone else.

Michael J. Sandel

#2. Warren made bursting noises under the bed. A rancorous stench. Dog Farts Fell Family of Four.

Annie Proulx

#3. My thoughts are rancorous, ruinous. They throng through me like a shoal of sharp, silver sprat whenever the outer noises aren't loud or plenty enough to keep them at bay, to keep them out of the bay, the bay of my brain.

Sara Baume

#4. Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous.

Karen Hughes

#5. One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#6. In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

Edmund Spenser

#7. Because I cannot flatter and look fair,
Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog,
Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,
I must be held a rancorous enemy.

William Shakespeare

#8. For little boys are rancorous
When robbed of any myth,
And spiteful and cantankerous
To all their kin and kith.
But little girls can draw conclusions
And profit from their lost illusions.

Phyllis McGinley

#9. Dear Eldritch Snitch. I slap you with the satin glove of righteous wrath! From what noxious nest of nattering nincompoopery do you release your rancorous roosters of rumor ...

James Kennedy

#10. The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

Charles Caleb Colton

#11. I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

Cathy Rigby

#13. I'm not an angry woman. I'm not bitter.

Terry McMillan

#14. He is wearing he same black pants from yesterday, but no shirt, his body is brown and hard, perfectly proportioned. He knows that he is beautiful and somehow his makes him ugly.

Damon Galgut

#15. Cooks must feed their egos as well as their customers ...

M.F.K. Fisher

#16. I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.

Brooke Burke

#17. I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.

Rachel Dratch

#18. I do think our challenge is to balance credibility and a clear message about how we would reduce the deficit with boldness about the choices that we put before the public.

Douglas Alexander

#19. The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Euripides