Sour Quotes

I am sure the grapes are sour. (Aesop)
Wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. View quote
Sylvia Plath
One time, when I was really little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
Sour patch kids gone wild. View quote
Sanjaya Malakar
That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should contemn your height; That with my blame my mockery you receive; Huntress and splendour of the woodland night, Diana of this world, do not believe. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
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. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
I have a sour face. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator. View quote
Augusto Pinochet
Every sweet hath its sour every evil its good. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism, which, as the advertising agencies well know, depress sales and sour the feasts of consumption. View quote
Lewis H. Lapham
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. (William Shakespeare)
You've got to take the bitter with the sour. View quote
Samuel Goldwyn
It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour. View quote
Robert Burns
Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour. View quote
Matt Groening
An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded me to man before, and that without wound or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now. View quote
Howard Pyle
Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that day. That day is always in your possession. That's the day you remember. You get old and you think: well, at least I had that day. It happened once. You think all the variables might just line up again. But they don't. Not always. I once talked to a woman who said, "Yeah, that's the day we had an angel around. View quote
Charles Baxter
He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed like no more than a trap, a maze, not even a maze, just a room that was all walls, no door. View quote
Etgar Keret
Parody is homage gone sour. View quote
Brendan Gill
I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough. View quote
DeWitt Bodeen
I'm a huge candy fan. My favorite growing up was always Sour Belts or Sour Straws. View quote
Kendall Schmidt
I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes. (Larry Hovis)
Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms. View quote
Peter Forsberg
It's a shame the Manchester United situation turned sour. View quote
Paul Ince
The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational. View quote
Roger Mudd
It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons. View quote
Sally Quinn