Top 41 Sneers At Quotes
#1. Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.
Jimi Hendrix
#2. The trouble is ... that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#3. Then I flip Kate the finger. Immature, I know, but apparently we're now both functioning at the preschool level, so I'm guessing it's okay. Kate sneers at me. Then she mouths, You wish. Well - she's got me there, now doesn't she?
Emma Chase
#4. Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.
Thomas Carlyle
#5. He who sneers at love will be left howling by love.
Ai Yazawa
#6. I don't know what he means, but there's something not clean about a man who sneers at everything.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#7. I am what I am and you can't take it away with all the words and sneers at your command.
Cherrie L. Moraga
#8. I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life ... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.
Herbert Hoover
#9. I think I'll always be linked to comedy. There is something about it that's such a beautiful thing. The world of drama sneers at it because people assume that it's easy but it's not at all; it's incredibly difficult.
Doc Brown
#10. She is not old, she is not young, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue. The haggard cheek, the hungering eye, The poisoned words that wildly fly, The famished face, the fevered hand, Who slights the worthiest in the land, Sneers at the just, contemns the brave, And blackens goodness in its grave ...
William Watson
#11. Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.
Franz Grillparzer
#12. Mama sneers at the mention of Brittany's name. "Good luck. You probably won't find anything that'll fit.
Deirdre Riordan Hall
#13. At first, Maisie had been glad to work with a female crewmember. So much the better to fend off the sneers, leers, and veiled derision of her male majority shipmates. But now she knew better. Karen was here to make neither friends nor feminist stands. She was here to ruin Maisie's career!
Mads Sukalikar
#15. Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more! Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore! And all for a pledge that was not pledged by me, I have kissed thy crust and eaten sparingly That I might eat again, and met thy sneers With deprecations, and thy blows with tears, ...
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#16. That's the whole secret: earn more, spend less, and automate it.
Anthony Robbins
#17. The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
Matthew Arnold
#18. The boys wore black T-shirts, dark hoodies and permanent sneers and their hair was an open rebellion against society and interfering mothers. - Zombiekins
Kevin Bolger
#19. The very moment you separate body and spirit, you end up with a corpse. Separate faith and works and you get the same thing: a corpse.
Eugene H. Peterson
#20. Plundering and stealing, cheating and lying, laboring, fighting and loving; taking all we could and returning little, we went our careless and irresponsible ways, with laughter in our hearts and sneers on our lips - as anti-social as hyenas who howled at the changes in the weather.
Jim Tully
#21. Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
Camille Paglia
#22. We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.
James Patterson
#23. But you must not think I have not cultivated courage as well - one needs a deal of it to live in this world - courage to brook the sneers of my own peers, courage to dare to be different from my class, courage to dream...for this new age, to fling beauty toward the stars!
Eloise Lownsbery
#24. Who sneers? wondered Eliza, fadingly. She'd thought it was something only book characters did.
Laini Taylor
#25. Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
William Wordsworth
#27. Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.
Elie Wiesel
#29. So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?
Michael Milken
#30. Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.
Jay Griffiths
#31. I looked into his sandy brown eyes, at one with the hair. At the business- like outward presentation of the man who daily printed sneers, innuendo, distrust and spite and spoke without showing a trace of them. 'Off the record,' I said,'bash his face in'.
Dick Francis
#32. It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Eric Hoffer
#33. So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#34. Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.
Frans Lanting
#35. Life wasn't about deserving anything. It was about earning everything.
Scott Sigler
#36. Could beauty be caught and hurt
they had done her to death with their sneers
in ages and ages past,
could beauty be sacrificed
for a thrust of a sword,
for a piece of thin money
tossed up to fall half alloy
then beauty were dead
long, long before we saw her face.
H.D.
#37. 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
#38. I am not all sneers and scathings, you see, I have my gentler side.
John Banville
#39. An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.
Alfred Edersheim
#40. The just man frowns, but never sneers. We understand anger, not malice.
Victor Hugo
#41. Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence.
Teresa Margaret Of The Sacred Heart
