Quotes About Ornery

Lucky Tyler: Yeah, you're here, looking more like the preacher's wife come calling than an overnight alibi. Who's gonna believe I tumbled you? The devil in him was kicking up his heels, goading him to say things he knew damn well would rub her the wrong way. But he felt he was justified in being ornery. He didn't particularly like her attitude either. Devon Haines:What did you expect me to wear? A negligee? Lucky Tyler: I----

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

You're a crafty old woman. You always try to win an argument by talkin' about some funeral. You're too ornery to die, and you know it.

Two things happen when you get to be old. One, you gather experience and knowledge. You learn from your mistakes, and thereby offer wisdom to others. The second thing that happens is that you grow forgetful, ornery and senile, and when you offer advice, well, you sometimes just don't know what you're talking about. Often it's hard for everyone-including me-to know the difference.

I'm going to have to watch every word I say around you." "Impossible. You talk far too much to succeed at that." "I'm not going to worry about you any longer, Karl Van der Vort. You're feeling well enough to be ornery. It just serves to prove what a fine physician I am—even if I wear red shirtwaists.

He's too ornery to die." Anita looked pathetically grateful for that small bit of comfort. "He is ornery, that's for sure." "I … am … not.

I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping.

I am] just a common everyday man whose instincts are to be ornery, who's anxious to be right.

I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'

Nothing seems to me more tragic than the pressures we put on artists to do what we think we'll like, and our refusal to prize what is most ornery and special about them.

A girl," Red whispered. "She'll be as beautiful and ornery as her mama.

I said, Well, looks like he's pretty ornery. I wonder where he gets it? "Jack just shrugged and kissed my cheek, and then whispered in my ear, He gets it from his mother.