Quotes About Sneer

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

definition of sarcasm is "a cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound

His lip curled in a sneer. "You always kiss your mistakes like that?

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

People who like progressive music tend to sneer at the idea of a kind of punk aesthetic, and people who like alternative indie rock or punk rock tend to sneer at what they see as the pretentiousness and pomposity of progressive music.

But owned that smile, if oft observed and near, Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer.

Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.

Do not say it. Gabriel said with quiet menace. I said nothing. Lucian pointed out. You raised your eyebrow in that obnoxious way you have, Gabriel replied. You are in enough trouble with me without adding a sneer to your sins. She is not like the women I seem to recall from our youth. You did not know any women in our youth. Gabriel told him.

Hare-Lip sniffed and sneered and Hoo-Hoo snickered, until Edwin nudged them to be silent.

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

It is the prerogative of the unthinkingly prosperous to sneer at the bourgeois virtues.

expecting every moment some awful change, some diabolical sneer to disfigure the dear face bending over you

There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything.

To salve the pains of consciousness, some people anesthetize themselves with sunny thoughts. But not everyone can follow their lead, above all not those who sneer at the sun and everything upon which it beats down. Their only respite is in the balm of bleakness. Disdainful of the solicitations of hope, they look for sanctuary in desolate places - a scattering of ruins in a barren locale or a rubble of words in a book where someone whispers in a dry voice, "I too am here.

sneered Snotlout.

The elites sneer at commerce as tawdry, but it's what gives people what they want and need, and pays for everything else, including the luxury of art.

Would anyone else like to make a dramatic confession?" Qibli asked. "Who else is hiding magic powers? Winter, anything we should know? A secret IceWing ability to kill dragons with a sneer?

A secret IceWing ability to kill dragons with a sneer?

Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. "I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her." "If I was, I would make you beg to blow me," I sneer.

Pilate's skeptical sneer What is truth? was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.

But a sneer can be a greater crime than a murder subjectively, for a sneer means "You are beneath contempt, you are sub-human, you are worthless scum, you are not even worth taking the trouble and time to kill", while a murder may mean "You are important and formidable and you are my enemy, and thus I must kill you." That can be a compliment, compared to a sneer.

sneer about it with my designer shoes and Ivy League pedigree.

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.