Top 100 Sour Quotes
#1. Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.
Horace
#2. No matter where he went in the City, there was an odoriferous mix of food and vehicles, like the alchemic concoctions of some mad gourmet mechanic: Kung Pao Saab Turbo, Buick Skylark Carbonara, Sweet-and-Sour Metro Bus, Honda Bolognese with Burning Clutch Sauce.
Christopher Moore
#3. Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'
Dr. Seuss
#4. Bertie opened the vial and drank the traded words down, tasting sour cherry syrup over shaved ice, bitter lemon peel, and spices that recalled a nameless sorrow.
Lisa Mantchev
#5. That's trouble. The pixies will sour your milk."
"I thought it was hobgoblins who soured milk."
"A dirty lie. Spread by the pixies, no doubt.
Kelley Armstrong
#6. Don't say that. It's not better to die. Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there from the grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong.
Betty Smith
#7. Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#8. Injustice, large and small, was like sour, moldy bread. Consumed often enough, it brought on hunger for the meat of revenge.
B.V. Lawson
#9. A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.
Gautama Buddha
#10. She tasted what she had said and found it sour enough to be accurate.
Peter Straub
#12. Of all the organs, ' said Nehemiah Trot, 'the tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste our sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sour with the same tongue. Go to her! Talk to her!
Neil Gaiman
#13. A bad putter is like a bad apple in a barrel. First, it turns your chipping game sour. Then it begins to eat into your irons and finally it just cleans the head off your driver.
Sam Snead
#14. Although the infertile are entitled to sour grapes, it's against the rules, isn't it, to actually have a baby and spend any time at all on that banished parallel life in which you didn't.
Lionel Shriver
#15. The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.
Joseph Addison
#16. Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.
David Suzuki
#17. It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose dearest dream had come true, who had attained his goal in life, who had got what he wanted, and was pleased with his destiny and with himself.
Anton Chekhov
#18. The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#19. Many a time since have I noticed, in persons of Ginevra Fanshawe's light, careless temperament, and fair, fragile style of beauty, an entire incapacity to endure: they seem to sour in adversity, like small beer in thunder.
Charlotte Bronte
#20. Your Majesty," he greeted. His respectful expression turned sour as he addressed Iko, "Madame Counselor." Iko's eyes went coppery with pride at her new title, even though she met the guard with a sour glare of her own.
Marissa Meyer
#21. You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug.
Clive Barker
#22. The earth's lungs, coated in green ooze and thaw, breathed out blossom-scent and sour rot and fungus-must, wet and warm and aware, where before the air had been cold and blind, remote as the moon.
Margo Lanagan
#23. Perfectionism will make you sour, mean, and judgmental, and it will rob you of the freedom Jesus died to give you.
Steve Brown
#24. She has a sour expression on her face (surprise, surprise)
Kasie West
#25. The Fiddle Creek Steakhouse [in Stephenville, TX] started selling what they called an 'Alien Secretion' shot: ¾ shot of Malibu rum, ¾ shot of melon or Midori liqueur, ½ ounce of sweet and sour mix, ½ ounce of pineapple juice.
Steve Volk
#26. As we age, we have a choice: to be sour or serene.
Glen E. Miller
#27. For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.
Hadewijch
#28. Dead. The words fall from my tongue and linger there like poison. A slow death hanging from my lips. I shake the thought away and swallow but I can still taste the remnants in the back of my throat. It's sour and I gag a little as tears swell behind my eyes.
Celia Mcmahon
#29. Burn turned to the doorway, his expression not exactly welcoming. "Finished sulking, have you? Pay your respects to our little heroine. She saved our lives." "I know," was the sour response.
T.L. Shreffler
#31. Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet. It can give you strength no one can defeat
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#32. What a sour little doodad the telephone is, and what little good news we get from it!
Stephen King
#33. From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
Teresa Of Avila
#34. Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
Ernest Hemingway,
#35. The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.
Neil Kinnock
#36. The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.
Donald Barthelme
#37. When the bells justle in the tower
The hollow night amid,
Then on my tongue the taste is sour
Of all I ever did.
A.E. Housman
#38. Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.
Blaise Pascal
#39. I saw myself then - sour, silly, difficult, lovely in his eyes. I drew him to me, felt him shudder as our bodies came together, skin against skin, felt the heat of his lips, his tongue, hands moving until the need between us drew taut and anxious as a bowstring waiting for release.
Leigh Bardugo
#40. I think maybe 'in love' has the shelf life of whipping cream. No matter how you handle it, it goes sour. But if you're lucky, you get past 'in love' and end up just loving someone.
Kristin Hannah
#41. The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
Henry Ward Beecher
#42. In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.
Ben Mendelsohn
#43. It is a two-line poem, which could be really sweet, or sour at times and it depends, totally on the way we use it.
Saravana Kumar Murugan
#44. He was like her favorite type of candy, she realized, a bit sour at first but all sweetness in the long run. Admittedly ... that tartness was part of the allure all along.
Victoria Kahler
#45. They mouth love's language. Gnash
The thirteen teeth
Your lean jaws grin with. Lash
Your itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh.
Love's breath in you is stale, worded or sung,
As sour as cat's breath,
Harsh of tongue.
James Joyce
#46. Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.
Maximillian Degenerez
#47. A kidder gets to be an awful thing around a camp if his stuff goes sort of sour.
Ernest Hemingway,
#48. Don't associate with evil men; don't long for their favors and gifts. Their kindness is a trick; they want to use you as their pawn. The delicious food they serve will turn sour in your stomach, and you will vomit it and have to take back your words of appreciation for their "kindness.
Anonymous
#49. One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.
Mason Cooley
#50. You can catch more flies with honey than with sour milk
Kiran Desai
#51. Books are like candy some can be sweet some can be sour, but no you cannot eat them
Morgan
#52. No mirror ever became iron again;
No bread ever became wheat;
No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.
Become the light.
Rumi
#53. He squeezed her hand back and made a sour face. I hate when you use logic against me. It takes my knees out.
Debra Anastasia
#54. Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.
Corey Taylor
#55. Life is like a sandwich!
Birth as one slice,
and death as the other.
What you put in-between
the slices is up to you.
Is your sandwich tasty or sour?
Alan Rufus
#56. the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs. Yet
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour.
Robert Burns
#58. People are not milk cartons. You don't pick and choose the ones you think will last the longest without going sour. If it feels right, you just go with it until it doesn't feel right anymore. And sometimes when something goes wrong, it hurts. That doesn't mean it wasn't worth it in the first place.
Siera Maley
#59. She was wearing a bright purple dress that was so short, I thought it might have started its life as a shirt. She would've been pretty if her face hadn't looked like she'd just taken a big swig of sour milk.
Rachel Hawkins
#60. There is nothing for me to be sour about. What you got to understand is that I'm a military man. We usually do my shift for four or five years and then you got to move on.
Shaquille O'Neal
#61. Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#62. Convinced I was unwanted, the sadness of my childhood escalated into the rebellion of my youth. My sour disposition, and what I perceived as my mother's blatant disinterest in my life, left me floundering.
Suzanne Handler
#63. Welcome the sour cup of prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again, and till then, Sit thee down, sorrow!
William Shakespeare
#64. Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.
Rumi
#65. I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.
Billy Graham
#66. But I always kind of knew in the back of my head that I could come back and do Stone Sour.
Corey Taylor
#67. All of the plants that we do not consider food that are safe for the human body to digest, we don't eat because they're sour and bitter. The reason why you don't eat Kentucky bluegrass or crabgrass is because it tastes sour and bitter.
Homaro Cantu
#68. The laughter was sour and not really directed at white women. It was a traditional ruse that was used to shield the black vulnerability; we laughed to keep from crying.
Maya Angelou
#69. Your ability is your power. Others' opinions can make it sour.
Debasish Mridha
#70. Despite the promise of four days of sun and overly sweet wine, Richard was sporting a sour puss. But then that was to be expected - he sold books for a living, after all.
Charlie Hill
#71. You're all angles and elbows right now." I gave him a sour look. "You certainly know how to make a girl feel sexy."
He grinned. "Well, how about: If anyone can make an oversize polyester uniform look hot, it's you.
Diana Rowland
#73. Listen Jesus to the warning I give. Please remember that I want us to live. But it's sad to see our chances weakening with every hour. All your followers are blind, too much heaven on their minds. It was beautiful, but now it's sour. Yes, it's all gone sour.
Tim Rice
#74. The success-haters. That's what I call them
the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.
Zoe Akins
#75. Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,
When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,
And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,
Assumes control of fate's immortal loom
Charles Baudelaire
#76. I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#77. His one big plan, oceanography, had gone sour on him; and then his plan turned into keeping his eyes open until something better came along.
Rainbow Rowell
#78. Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#79. The tower of power, too sweet to be sour, ohhhh yeahh!
Randy Savage
#80. I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.
Lena Headey
#81. Once off the bush The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not. -Blackberry picking
Seamus Heaney
#82. He was the kind of man who brings a sour mouth to the eating of the sweetest apple.
Edith Wharton
#83. I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.
John Hawkes
#84. Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
Saint Basil
#85. The words tasted sour. I agreed with Patrick. In New Orleans, sometimes death did feel more like socializing. And he knew better than anyone else. He frequented postmortem parties daily, trolling for books.
Ruta Sepetys
#86. Songs choose their hour and their own season. When your tune's tin, there is a reason. The tone of a tune is your heart's mettle, and there's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle, or you'll sound sour as a broken bell.
Patrick Rothfuss
#87. I don't want awards. I am not saying this like it's a case of sour grapes. It isn't. I have been to a couple of award functions, and I soon realised that it doesn't give me the kick that it does to others.
Emraan Hashmi
#88. Still, we've attempted to argue when necessary; you've got to be able to let loose and even lose your temper a bit if you're finding it hard to breathe. Closeness has to be like running water; it mustn't stagnate and sour.
Oddny Eir
#89. The interesting thing about the miracle berry in chemo patients is that it actually straightens out their taste buds, whereas for you and I, it blocks our bitter and sour receptors. For them, it straightens them out to taste food as it normally tastes.
Homaro Cantu
#90. It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.
Frank Black
#91. Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell sour annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.
William Shakespeare
#92. Sour cream! He had tasted it once and liked to puke.
Stephen King
#93. that weird sour body odor only monsters have, like a skunk that's been living off Mexican food. Grover
Rick Riordan
#94. Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich.
Rose Macaulay
#95. Finally it was probably less the poverty that bred crime than the sour stench of racism that hung over anyplace where people are separated out by kind.
Robert B. Parker
#96. It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.
Sally Quinn
#97. A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. That's what the majority of people in the world do, they walk among the ruins of their life. Things that didn't work out, relationships that went sour, jobs that disappeared. All they can think about is their ruins, and when you focus on that you can't build a new you.
Richard Simmons
#99. Oh, good," I say, a sour taste in my mouth. "Heroism is what I was focused on. Not, you know, trying not to die.
Veronica Roth
#100. I'm lonely, she said. She had not known before that this was one of the things which made her feel sour and cross.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
