Quotes About Grumpiness

curmudgeonliness

He called me Bubbles, a pet name he had chosen, he told me, because I seemed to enjoy so many things. Anxious to confirm his description, I refused to let my enthusiasm wane, even when I grew tired or grumpy. Thus excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.

Their grumpiness is often the grumpiness of perfectionists who hold that anything less than total victory is failure, a premise that makes it easy to give up at the start or to disparage the victories that are possible. This is Earth. It will never be heaven. There will always be cruelty, always be violence, always be destruction.

People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.

There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky!

Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable.

Polypharmacology and curmudgeonliness were keeping her alive.

Om aan de ontwerkelijking te ontsnappen - om de komst ervan uit te stellen - probeer ik me met de wereld te verenigen door middel van het slechte humeur.

the longer everyone spent beneath the Cloud, the crabbier they got.

l'un avec pétulance, comme un jeune chien qui demande à jouer, l'autre avec mauvaise humeur, et le troisième avec ennui et indolence.

You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn't you? (Acheron)

My mum used to tell me when I was a kid that I had to go to bed at 7.30 P.M., and when I'd ask why, she'd say, 'Well, you do get a bit grumpy when you don't have routines'. Then I realised, when I was a bit older, that's actually true.

There's a fine line between angry and grumpy. Angry isn't nice, but grumpy is funny.

Michael's generation—its history of fighting disease and bigotry—sometimes made him grumpier than Ben would like him to be, but he knew what he'd found in Michael: a gift for intimacy like none Ben had ever known.

I swear there are about a million rocks underneath me," [Dylan] said grouchily. Think of it as therapeutic. Like a shiatsu massage." (Sadie) You obviously have a much better imagination than me," he said.

I'm just in a bad moood.

I don't do so well with people pretending to be happy. When I was 16, I went with my girlfriend at the time and her family to Disneyland and I was so grumpy the whole time.

I know people who have literally quit their jobs to spend more time with their children, and I go, 'Wow,' my dad used to go to work at 7 o'clock in the morning and he'd come back at 7:30 and we'd kind of see him walk in and then he'd go upstairs and suddenly he'd be in a T-shirt and grumpy. There wasn't much in the way of conversation that went on.

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

I believe that I shall become a curmudgeon. Then at least I can complain, and it will be expected of me.

DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT.

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

Sólo se reía de buena gana con Marcelo, de sus patas cortas y su cara de lémur; ese animal se daba el lujo de ser narcisista y gruñón, como un marido.

I'm sour at times.