Ungracious Quotes

#1. I don't think it's ungracious to seek cosmetic help - it has crossed my mind from time to time, and I have been tempted. But it's too short-term. Once you start down that road, you have to keep going.

Diana Quick

#2. Anna has a stab of jealousy - she is thrilled for them, yet can't help but envy their happiness. Don't be ungracious, she tells herself. It is not your time; it is theirs. Lou is so lovely; she deserves to be happy.

Sarah Rayner

#3. Mortals have become spoiled and ungracious, and fail to appreciate the things right around them. They forget that Christmas is about love, and God's perfect, selfless gift.

Cameo Renae

#4. Ellie fought the urge to stamp her foot. "I meant it this time. Do you accept my apology?"
"It appears," he said, raising his eyebrows, "that you might do me bodily harm if I do not."
"Ungracious prig," she muttered. "I am trying to apologize."
"And I," he said, "am trying to accept.

Julia Quinn

#5. All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.

Anton Chekhov

#6. To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.

Ovid

#7. There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing they are, the more picturesque, so to speak, but there are crimes that are shameful, disgraceful, all horror aside, so to speak, even far too ungracious ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. Mr. Young hadn't had to quiet a screaming baby for years. H'ed never been much good at it to start with. He'd always respected Sir Winston Churchill, and patting small versions of him on the bottom had always seemed ungracious.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Surely there is nothing so ungracious, nor nothing so cruel, but men will hold therewith, if it be once approved by custom.

Desiderius Erasmus

#10. Martin was a thoroughly amiable man, a man of wide reading, but when he came to write he mounted upon a pair of stilts, unusually lofty stilts, and staggered along at a most ungracious pace, with an occasional awkward lurch into colloquialism, giving a strikingly false impression of himself.

Patrick O'Brian

#11. How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

Muriel Lester

#12. Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own read.

William Shakespeare

#13. It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. Oh! how heartily did she grieve over every ungracious sensation she had ever encouraged, every saucy speech she had ever directed towards him. For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him.

Jane Austen

#15. Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list.

John Ortberg

#16. Supposing you are a lady so completely dumb that the dogs in the street do not think you are worth growling at.

Flann O'Brien

#17. You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.

Mary Browne

#18. The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.

Florence King

#19. I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

Dorothy Kilgallen

#20. Healing through the mind can work harmoniously with medicine.

Rhonda Byrne

#21. All night I have bad dreams about severed hands. In one I'm eating chili and a hand comes out of my bowl and gives me the thumbs-down. I

George Saunders

#22. Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.

Mike Ditka

#23. I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

Howard Schultz

#24. Kind of like saying 'no offense' when you've just said something offensive?

Jennifer Egan

#25. Owning your own racing ship wasn't even wealth. It was like speciation. It was conspicuous consumption befitting ancient Earth royalty, a pharaoh's pyramid with a reaction drive.

James S.A. Corey