Sorry For Scolding Quotes

#1. With the scolding half frown and lowered brows, she took his breath away. What would she do if he put his hands on either side of her face and kissed her lips? Probably slap him.

Melanie Dickerson

#2. Crying is the opposite of scolding, because adults are hardly ever allowed to do it.

Lemony Snicket

#3. Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love.
James Rollins

James Rollins

#4. They are like men: if bold, the better of scolding; if timid, the better of praise and flattery.

Lew Wallace

#5. The scolding voice is her own, so abrasive and quick, yet so powerless to move her.

Carol Shields

#6. Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it.

Sharon Salzberg

#7. The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.

Alice Morse Earle

#8. You can't be a bad boy without somebody scolding you.

David Rasche

#9. I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.

Anne Frank

#10. Oh, but reasoning is so much worse than scolding! ... I didn't marry to be reasoned with. If you meant to reason with such a poor little thing as I am, you ought to have told me so, you cruel boy!

Charles Dickens

#11. When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

Libba Bray

#12. (LuAnn) Whatever. That'll teach me not to build my life around a man whose favorite book is Atlas Shrugged. Listen, kid." She waggles her finger, as if scolding me. "Nothing good comes from Ayn RAnd. Trust me on this.

Abby McDonald

#13. You ran miles and miles to find me, didn't you? You clever boy! I don't know if I should be scolding you or hugging you!" And with that, I wrapped my weak arms around my knight in furry armor. "You're the best friend a girl could ever have, Maze. I love you.

Karen Luellen

#14. Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#15. Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

Michel De Montaigne

#16. I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of a judicious mother more than all the rods, dark rooms, end scolding school-mistresses in the universe.

Henry Kirke White

#17. As a gentleman- assuming you still have some pretensions in that direction- of honor- again, perhaps presumptuous, but still supposing your passing acquaintance with the concept- it is your duty- I won't even trouble to speculate here, but remain naively hopeful- to protect those under your care.

Connie Brockway

#18. Peculiar, isn't it?" he said. "First you're scolding your children and then all at once they're so smart they're scolding you.

Anne Tyler

#19. I should never like scolding any one else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband.

George Eliot

#20. Never argue with a mother who's scolding her child.

Toba Beta

#21. His last image of Grandmother was of her glaring out the window, as if thinking about the terrible scolding she would give the ogres when they invaded her home.

Rick Riordan

#22. So, let me get this straight," she said. "You're not afraid to scale Mount McKinley or swim in shark-infested waters, but you're scared of getting another scolding from your mother?

Tracy Brogan

#23. Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training."
Since when does "overseeing" include throwing knives at me and scolding me at every opportunity?

Veronica Roth

#24. Never express anger with a friend or a subordinate in public," Vedris always said. "They might forgive a private expression of anger or a deserved scolding, but they never forget a public humiliation. It is the surest way to destroy a friendship and to create enemies.

Tamora Pierce

#25. To give an extra dimension to the scolding she gave me: The word "twerp" was freshly coined in those days, and had a specific definition - it was a person, if I may be forgiven, who bit the bubbles of his own farts in a bathtub.

Kurt Vonnegut

#26. Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief.

Clark Gregg

#27. There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

John Calvin

#28. When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

Nancy Pearcey

#29. Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.

William Wycherley

#30. Where is the true religion? It is where women, men, youth, children, elderly, the illiterate and the educated are all attracted.

Dada Bhagwan