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I love playing a curmudgeon. I just love playing a sour guy. ~ Zach Galifianakis
Curmudgeon quotes by Zach Galifianakis
Fiancé. The very word scraped him raw. Dom had met Blakeborough half a dozen times back when he'd been courting Jane, but their paths hadn't crossed since then. As Dom recalled, the earl had been too handsome for his own good.
Through the years, however, rumors had begun to circulate about the man's disposition--that he was a curmudgeon of sorts, cynical about women and about marriage in general. Which is why Dom had initially been surprised to hear that Jane was engaged to the arse.
Still was engaged to the arse.
Dom scowled. He'd spent the entire trip imagining what he would do when confronted with the man.
The idea of challenging Blakeborough to a duel over Jane was tempting, but not remotely practical. For one thing, it would hurt Jane's reputation. For another, it might result in Dom losing her anyway. Because if afterward Dom had to flee to avoid prosecution, she might not agree to leave England with him. Besides, it would be awfully hard to drag Rathmoor Park out of arrears from afar.
Dom had even considered telling Blakeborough that his fiancée was no longer chaste. But that would send her into an apoplectic fit, and rightly so. A gentleman didn't impugn a woman's reputation to gain what he wanted. Even if what he wanted was the woman as his wife.
No, he would just have to hope that Jane did the right thing and broke with the fellow. In the meantime, Dom would pray he could speak to the man with civility…or at least without wanting to cal ~ Sabrina Jeffries
Curmudgeon quotes by Sabrina Jeffries
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. ~ W.C. Fields
Curmudgeon quotes by W.C. Fields
It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating
after all, they are women
but they cannot be curmudgeons. ~ Cleveland Amory
Curmudgeon quotes by Cleveland Amory
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of fact, common sense, and native intelligence. In this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon. ~ Edward Abbey
Curmudgeon quotes by Edward Abbey
People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon. ~ James Garner
Curmudgeon quotes by James Garner
Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
Curmudgeon quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon. ~ V.S. Naipaul
Curmudgeon quotes by V.S. Naipaul
I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus. ~ James Gibbons
Curmudgeon quotes by James Gibbons
I myself hope to live long enough to graduate from being a 'bad boy,' which I once was, to becoming a curmudgeon.... ~ Christopher Hitchens
Curmudgeon quotes by Christopher Hitchens
In response to an article in the New York times that claimed from an fMRI study that 'a mother's impulse to love and protect her child appears to be hard-wired into her brain' one neuro-curmudgeon put out a plea to 'take experience and learning seriously. Just because you see a response [in the brain] - you don't get to claim it's hard-wired. ~ Cordelia Fine
Curmudgeon quotes by Cordelia Fine
Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation. ~ James Thurber
Curmudgeon quotes by James Thurber
It is impossible to ostracize a lone wolf. ~ Joseph Annaruma
Curmudgeon quotes by Joseph Annaruma
Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me? ~ John Kennedy Toole
Curmudgeon quotes by John Kennedy Toole
The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way. ~ James Hillman
Curmudgeon quotes by James Hillman
If we are lucky enough, as I am, to be from time to time in quite close contact with young people, they can sometimes make it easier to hang on to this notion when they function, as every person does vis-a-vis every other person they come up against, as a mirror.
Always we are being reflected in the eyes of others. Are we silly or sensible, stupid or clever, bad or good, unattractive or sexy...? We never stop being at least slightly aware of, if not actively searching for, answers to such questions, and are either deflated or elated, in extreme cases ruined or saved, by what we get. So if when you are old a beloved child happens to look at you as if he or she thinks (even if mistakenly!) that you are wise and kind: what a blessing! It's not that such a fleeting glimpse of yourself can convert you into wiseness and kindness in any enduring way; more like a good session of reflexology which, although it can cure nothing, does make you feel like a better person while it's going on and for an hour or two afterwards, and even that is well worth having.
The more frequent such shots of self-esteem are, the more valuable they become, so there is a risk - remote, but possible - of their becoming addictive. An old person who doesn't enjoy having young people in her life must be a curmudgeon, but it is extremely important that she should remember that risk and watch her step. Or he, his. ~ Diana Athill
Curmudgeon quotes by Diana Athill
This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no doubt about it. ~ Stacy Keach
Curmudgeon quotes by Stacy Keach
But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me. ~ Maynard James Keenan
Curmudgeon quotes by Maynard James Keenan
I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it. ~ Jonathan Frid
Curmudgeon quotes by Jonathan Frid
I stared at the paper. I said, "This isn't reading. This is drawing." "Writing," she corrected. "It's like buttons and hems. You've got to learn those before you can sew on the machine. You've got to know your letters before you can read." I supposed so, but it was boring. When I said so she got up again and wrote something along the bottom of the paper. "What's that?" I asked. "'Ada is a curmudgeon,'" she replied. "Ada is a curmudgeon," I copied at the end of my alphabet. It pleased me. After ~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Curmudgeon quotes by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Truth, an objective thing, is usually conceived of as something simple. Quite the opposite is correct: truth is enormously complicated; it calls for effort on several levels to arrive at its definition; it demands the utmost devotion in its service.
Do you doubt it? Then resolve evermore to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. You must hurt your friends, suffer the most pitiless scrutiny and persecution, turn the festive occasion into a nightmare of share words and recriminations. You will be called "a sour-puss," a curmudgeon, a difficult man, and very possibly a knave and an untruthful braggart.
The world, as it is organized, is a conspiracy against truth. Individuals, communities, nations, they are all afraid of the truth as if it were a medusa head which froze men to stone, even as it froze them to virtue. ~ Francis Beauchesne Thornton
Curmudgeon quotes by Francis Beauchesne Thornton
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