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Quotes About Scolding

I remember one day, Ekta Kapoor came to the set and scolded me that you don't know how to act, why did we cast you'? She asked me to stay on the set till I learnt the technique of correct dialogue delivery. At that time I felt very humiliated.
~ Madhura Naik
That scolding I gave her was probably just what she needed, and I daresay it'll last for a month." "I'm glad you're pleased," answered Jane. "A cringing worm is what you want, not a bright, smiling child.
~ Eric E. Wiggin
As he clambered back and picked up the paddle, he was still muttering furiously in his own language and glaring at her. Without deciphering a single word, she knew he was scolding her for her carelessness, trying to explain that one had to be alert the whole time in the jungle. " Idiota! " he said finally, and though Senhor and Senhora Olvidares in the phrase book had not used the word, Maia understood it well enough.
~ Eva Ibbotson
Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can't hear me through the television set.
~ Ben Feldman
Once a Dinamo Zagreb coach saw me while I was eating a pizza and severely scolded me, telling me that I would be fat, I had to think about my health. In response, I ordered 10 pizzas and managed to eat 5, so next time he will have a strong think before treating his players in a bad way.
~ Mario Mandzukic
Just about every adult introvert can remember being scolded, even if gently, for being too quiet as a kid.
~ Brian Walsh
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
~ buck pearl s ii
Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.
~ Mason Cooley
Nobody really likes to be lectured a lot. And, therefore, if you want to be an effective person, what you don't do is scold the person publicly all the time.
~ George W. Bush
One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has accustomed them to obedience, and experience has made them cautious in their conversation with their teachers. Will you not draw from this the fine maxim that one should not scold children too much, but should make them trustful, so that they will not conceal their stupidities from us?
~ Catherine the Great
Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of other women as the sound of a shrill whine at table.
~ M. F. K. Fisher
Oh, but reasoning is so much worse than scolding!... I didn't marry to be reasoned with. If you meant to reason with such a poor little thing as I am, you ought to have told me so, you cruel boy!
~ Charles Dickens
The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.
~ William Wycherley
If you're not interested in democratizing the country's economic structure, however, individual righteousness might be just the thing for you. This model deals with ordinary citizens by judging and purging; by canceling and scolding. It's not about building; it's about purity
~ Thomas Frank
What is certain is that the liberalism of scolding will never give rise to the kind of mass movement that this country needs.
~ Thomas Frank
Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.
~ Christopher Buckley
Belediye binas?n?n ikinci kat?ndaki Rizeli, kuyruktaki vatandaÅŸlar? azarlayan önemli ve meÅŸgul bir adamd?.
~ Orhan Pamuk
John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.
~ Dale Carnegie
As a kid I wanted to run away from home every time I got a scolding for being naughty but I never did. Knowing now what happens to unprotected kids on the streets I'm glad I didn't.
~ Abhay Deol
When people say, "I've told you fifty times," / They mean to scold, and very often do; / When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," / They make you dread that they 'II recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; / At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, / But then, no doubt, it equally as true is, / A good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.
~ Lord Byron
heavy smoking are ways of denying life. They mask a deep feeling of being totally unworthy of existing. Scolding will not change the habit of smoking. It is the basic belief that must change first.
~ Louise L. Hay
I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.
~ Anne Frank
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
~ Unknown