Top 100 Sneer Quotes
#1. Pyle could see pain when it was in front of his eyes. (I don't write that as a sneer; there are so many of us who can't)
Graham Greene
#2. I'll give you some credit," he said with a sneer. "You don't look like a prostitute."
Austin shrugged. "I don't usually wear the fishnets and garish makeup on my day off.
Lauren Gallagher
#3. It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint ... office parties, artificial ... Christmas trees ... but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence; yes, and its beauty, too.
Paul Gallico
#4. Jeb crouches to fill in the sketch's lower half with paint. His lips twist to a cruel sneer. "That's your favorite pastime, right? And you'll have your prince of moths for company.
A.G. Howard
#5. The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.
Lucy Stone
#6. THANKSGIVING DAY. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys; they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.
Mark Twain
#8. She put a hard-boiled sneer on her face and gave me plenty of time to get used to it
Raymond Chandler
#9. The the glow become brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey.
A boy in the crowd gasped. 'She's a communist!'
A girl who'd been sitting at Cabin Four's table gave him a disgusted sneer. 'No, Damien, that's my mom's symbol.
Rick Riordan
#10. Lincoln did not admire those who think it is a mark of sophistication to sneer at patriotism. He believed that God has a will for a country and that is honest man should rejoice in the effort to try to remake his country after the Divine pattern, insofar as that pattern is revealed to him.
Elton Trueblood
#11. Stalkers lips curled into a sneer. "You won't make a move without him, huh? That's embarrassing."
"No," I said softly. "It just hurts because you wish it was you.
Ann Aguirre
#12. I'd sneer and tell him he's got the cerebral finesse of an amoeba and delight in his squint of confusion.
Craig Silvey
#13. Your system kills, too. You're not eliminated sacrifices [to gods], you're democratized them - everyone dies a little every day, and the poor and desperate are the worst injured.
We honored our sacrifices in the old days. You sneer at them.
Max Gladstone
#15. You flunked out of Being a Human 101 but aced Assholery III? The sarcastic sneer on her lovely lips was sexy as fuck and I couldn't help laughing at the witty comeback.
Raine Miller
#16. The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
William Hazlitt
#17. You can crab over the morning paper and kick the shins of the guy in the next seat at the movies and feel mean and discouraged and sneer at the politicians but there are a lot of nice people in the world just the same.
Raymond Chandler
#18. A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.
Esther Meynell
#19. Some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.
Margaret Mead
#20. But music lasts, even pop music. Especially pop music. Sneer at 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' if you want to, but people will still be listening to that silly piece of shit fifty years from now.
Stephen King
#22. Father, what are you to do now?"
Triton's sneer grew scarier. "She broke the law." turning away from the terrified faces of his daughters. "She must die.
Khalia Hades
#23. For love, people consider the unthinkable . . . and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power." The
Renee Ahdieh
#24. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Ovid
#25. Too easy to conclude, with a private sneer, that men were simple. Granted, had they been strangers, they might well be circling and sniffing each other's anuses right now.
Steven Erikson
#26. Baltsaros's face was flushed, his lip curled into a slight sneer as he stared back at Jon. He felt a rush of adrenaline as he realized what the captain wanted from him.
"Hit him again," Jon said. "And don't hold back this time.
Bey Deckard
#27. He's still looking in my eyes. Staring me down like he did that dragon, chin tilted and locked. "I'm not the Chosen One," he says.
I meet his gaze and sneer. My arm is a steel band around his waist. "I choose you," I say. "Simon Snow, I choose you.
Rainbow Rowell
#28. And we would all try to do it in our heads, and all arrive at different results, and sneer at one another.
Jerome K. Jerome
#29. Playfulness: that infantile quality we sneer at whilst busying ourselves with intellect and seriousness. And misery.
Martin Cosgrove
#30. Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
Ann Voskamp
#31. There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything.
Jan Morris
#32. To sneer at his imperfect attempt was very bad breeding.
Emily Bronte
#33. If he chooses combat I'll wipe that arrogant sneer off his face the first chance I get.
Rachel E. Carter
#34. The most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.
Georgia Harkness
#35. As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
Carol Ann Duffy
#36. The crowd would have forgiven anything, except a man who could remain normal under the vibrations of its enormous collective sneer.
Ayn Rand
#37. The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
Charles Kingsley
#38. And then I turned and saw a guy staring at me ...
"What are you looking at, idiot?" I asked, giving him the sneer that had served me so well.
"My future wife. The mother of my children.
Kristan Higgins
#39. No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.
Megan Whalen Turner
#40. Lilac curled her upper lip in a dead-eyed sneer, and it made my skin crawl. The girl looked like she might fillet me and have me for a snack later. She made the Dale R. Fielding High School Cheer Squad look like Barney and Friends, and I vowed to give her a wide berth.
Veronica Wolff
#41. Why would the Prime Minister make such an order, Mr. Chaudhry?" the General leaned forward to put out the barely smoked cigarette. "Would you advise him to do such a foolish thing? Are you tired of being in government already?" A barely noticeable sneer crept across his battle-worn face.
Khalid Muhammad
#42. To sneer at others for not believing the same as you is the height of arrogance and elitism, the top failings of any leader who governs at the grace of the people.
Robert J. Crane
#43. Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.
Gustav Heinemann
#44. His lip curled in a sneer. You always kiss your mistakes like that?
Sylvia Day
#45. Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
Charles Dickens
#46. She did not see why anyone should worry about her soul, even the people she marched with. "When it gives me trouble," she'd sneer, "I'll call y'all.
Alice Walker
#47. What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
Jack Kevorkian
#49. never sneer at good things or pretend to be worse than you are. Don't let false shame make you neglect the religion without which no man can live.
Louisa May Alcott
#50. Will none wipe the sneer of the face of the cosmos?
Poul Anderson
#51. The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.
Matt Groening
#52. Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Vachel Lindsay
#53. Yes, I recognize Zarathustra. His eyes are clear now, no longer does he sneer with loathing. Just see how he dances along!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he will leave the room if you are drunk. If you make a fool of yourself in front a dog, he will make a fool of himself, too.
Chuck Jones
#55. We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#56. It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because they have the "misfortune" to drive a bus for a living.
Mallory Ortberg
#57. That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should contemn your height; That with my blame my mockery you receive; Huntress and splendour of the woodland night, Diana of this world, do not believe.
Hilaire Belloc
#58. Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. "I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her."
"If I was, I would make you beg to blow me," I sneer.
Holly Black
#59. At the window of my room, I catch my reflection in the glass. Shaggy black hair. Sneer.I look like a hungry ghost, glowering in at a world I am no longer fit to be a part of.
Holly Black
#60. I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer,
I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer;
To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two;
I can tell a woman's age in half a minute
and I do
W.S. Gilbert
#61. Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
Robert A. Heinlein
#62. My culture may be different from yours, but that should not be a reason for you to sneer at it. If a bunch of us appreciate it, then there must be something special to be learned by everyone, even you a stranger.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#63. She thinks she is white,' they used to sneer, and that was as bad as a curse.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
#64. People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.
Lauren Willig
#65. To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years
to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of it, and at last the indifference because any one would.
Gerald Stanley Lee
#66. I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our aims, the pettiness of our thoughts, the puerility of our conversation!
Frances Power Cobbe
#67. The dead girl had her glimpse of earthly paradise: littered with designer goods, and celebrities to sneer at, and handsome drivers to joke with, and the yearning for it had brought her to this: seven mourners, and a minister who did not know her name.
Robert Galbraith
#68. I had a dream about you. You were wearing Sylvester Stallone's sneer as pants, but his lips were saggy on your legs, so you had to wear a mustache as a belt.
Dora J. Arod
#69. People talk
they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
Piers Anthony
#70. The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#72. Agatha looked into the wolf's eyes. "I don't want to die,"
for the first time, his sneer softened.
"I didn't either.
Soman Chainani
#73. There will be sadness," Alia intoned. "I remind you that all things are but beginning, forever beginning. Worlds wait to be conquered. Some within the sound of my voice will attain exalted destinies. You will sneer at the past, forgetting what I tell you now: within all differences there is unity.
Frank Herbert
#74. Hey, Venus, I have two words for you,' Aphrodite said.
Venus hesitated and glanced over her shoulder at her ex-roommate. Aphrodite smiled her best mean-bitch sneer and said, 'Re. Bound.' She paused and gave a bithy smirk and then said, 'Good luck with that.
P.C. Cast
#75. We must be amusing at all times and sneer at those who express their real feelings; it's dangerous for a tribe to allow its members to show their feelings.
Paulo Coelho
#77. Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.
Peter Kreeft
#78. Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer
Lord Byron
#79. Death ends all things and so is the comprehensive conclusion of a story, but marriage finishes it veru properly too and the sophisticated are ill-advised to sneer at what is by convention termed a happy ending.
W. Somerset Maugham
#80. The conservatives could sneer about "social engineering" if they wanted, but I thought that most people believed as I did that government should embody our best hopes and lend a hand to people who were struggling.
Joe Biden
#81. All he did from freshman year through sophomore was react
sneer, laugh, dismiss, find fault, demean
a young man's version of critical thinking.
Toni Morrison
#82. Hauk said under his breath. "Since I've obviously been doing something wrong - " "Yeah," Jayne raked him with a sneer, "lay off the cheap 'hos, and try finding a decent woman for once." Hauk
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#83. Tears,' they would sneer, 'are the indulgences of those who haven't suffered enough.' To
Sonia Faleiro
#84. Chloe is waiting for me." A sneer twisted his lips. "Always rushing off to please your female. You keep claiming it's because she's taken your heart, but if you ask me, I think she's got your balls.
Eve Langlais
#85. Write something the skeptics will sneer at.
Marty Rubin
#86. Tall, blond, and immortal." "Viking vampire assassins," Murphy said, barely stifling a sneer. "Sounds like the subject of a bad romance novel." "I disagree," Carwyn said. "That sounds like a rather excellent romance novel.
Elizabeth Hunter
#87. Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer.
Steven Morrissey
#88. The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.
George William Curtis
#89. You know the expression, "It's not personal; it's business." We sneer at such rot. All business is personal, all the time.
Chris Kilham
#91. People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry. George Reedy
Robert A. Caro
#92. So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Carl Sandburg
#93. New ideas are delicate. They can be crushed easily. New ideas can be killed by a sneer or a yawn...or even a frown.
Jeff Wheeler
#94. Nice to meet His Creepiness," Zahara said with a sneer. "In case your douchebag of a boss has never told you, sneaking up on a girl with a blade is never a nice way of saying hello." ~Zahara
Annabell Cadiz
#95. Tall. Black hair swept back from his forehead. Lips curled up in a sneer... I know that face as well as my own.
Rainbow Rowell
#96. Sorry," he said, not sounding very sorry at all. "I ... well, nevermind."
"Nevermind?" I couldn't help but sneer. "You just broke into my uncle's lighthouse. Don't you tell me to nevermind.
Karina Halle
#97. Warlock D. J. Prod of Didsbury says:
My wife used to sneer at my feeble charms, but one month into your fabulous Kwikspell course and I succeeded in turning her into a yak!
Thank you, Kwikspell!
J.K. Rowling
#98. SNEER. But, what the deuce, is the confidante to be mad too?
PUFF. To be sure she is. The confidante is always to do whatever her mistress does- weep when she weeps, smile when she smiles, go mad when she goes mad.-Now, Madam Confidante! But keep your madness in the background, if you please.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#99. An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.
George Bernard Shaw
#100. As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!
Arthur Hugh Clough