Top 38 Sourly Quotes

#1. The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.

Emily Bronte

#2. I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys)
'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices.

George R R Martin

#3. Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Jean De La Fontaine

#4. If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

Nelson Goodman

#5. I believe the Gods hate to be bored, so I do my best to amuse them. That way they smile on me. Your God,' Merlin said sourly, 'despises amusement, demanding grovelling worship instead. He must be a very sorry creature.

Bernard Cornwell

#6. When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#7. Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?

George Sand

#8. The current Baptist view that God condemns "homosexual behavior" and same-sex marriages comes from the same kind of broad and anachronistic scriptural readings as prior support for segregation.

Anonymous

#9. Arabs and Mulims are not terrorists.The world should unite against Israel.

Angelina Jolie

#10. Giving inspiration to a lawyer, Sharpe thought sourly, was like feeding fine brandy to a rat.

Bernard Cornwell

#11. I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.

Cassandra Clare

#12. Jenks squinted at me, and when Trent nodded, the pixy gestured sourly to Bis to get on with it. A four inch man ruled us all.

Kim Harrison

#13. I'm sure the Bursar would not agree with those figures," said the Senior Wrangler sourly.
"That is so,' said Ponder, "but I'm afraid that is because he regards the decimal point as a nuisance.

Terry Pratchett

#14. It's a good day to do great things!

Randy Lipnitzky

#15. The Ravenels have always been known for their volatile temperaments."
"Thank you," Gabriel said sourly. "Now I won't be surprised when my future offspring emerge with horns and tails.

Lisa Kleypas

#16. Be who you are and let everyone love that person.

Wiz Khalifa

#17. Wasn't learning to lose gracefully part of your training?"
"No," she said sourly. "Arobynn told me that second place was just a nice title for the first loser.

Sarah J. Maas

#18. Knut, this is Jude. Remember I told you about him? He writes poetry." Knut looked my half-Japanese self up and down. "Haiku?" he guessed. "Gesundheit," I muttered sourly.

J.L. Merrow

#19. The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#20. Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back, Beldin said sourly.

David Eddings

#21. I feel like calling in dead," I told him sourly. "You are looking rather corpse-like.

J.C. Daniels

#22. When you don't have much money, you get creative. There's so much money that gets wasted on big movie sets. But when you don't have much money, you improvise.

Michael Jai White

#23. When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

Mark Twain

#24. He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness.

Diana Gabaldon

#25. Work hard and party harder...

Aman

#26. Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.

Al Gore

#27. She felt hurt that he had agreed so easily. And she laughed sourly at herself that she could ask a thing and be hurt when she got it.

John Steinbeck

#28. I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.

Bob Dylan

#29. Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

Lemony Snicket

#30. As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.

Nick Frost

#31. The woman set Sig's chocolate orgy out in front of her and deposited my steak on the table.
"Y'all must work out," the waitress observed a little sourly. She apparently did not.
"I'm going to throw this up later," Sig said expressionlessly.
"I have a tapeworm," I said cheerfully.

Elliott James

#32. Get back on the bike and tell me where to go."
"I'll tell you where to go," I muttered sourly, and he laughed.

Karen Marie Moning

#33. Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

James Joyce

#34. The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had just been gainsaid. "I've never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he's just ruined," he said sourly.

Lisa Kleypas

#35. Fasal liked to fight; Jiaan was good at planning. Together, Jiaan thought sourly, they almost made a whole officer. And if you added Jiaan's eighteen years to Fasal's seventeen, you had someone old enough to command an army as well.

Hilari Bell

#36. I feel like I'm stuck in an IFCF." I raised a brow. "Interdimensional Fairy Cluster Fuck," she said sourly.

Karen Marie Moning

#37. A flower that will always grow toward the sun." "And what does that make me?" she asked sourly. "Heart of oak, my girl," he said, redeeming himself entirely. "Heart of oak.

Donna Thorland

#38. Love is the victor in every case. Love breaks down the iron bars of thought, and sets the captive free.

Ernest Holmes

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