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Quotes About Complaint

I often lament that new picture books don't get read because the classics hold up so well. It's a ridiculous complaint because, um, the classics hold up so well.
~ Rebecca Serle
In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head of the colony, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, instantly made conditions at the camp unbearable.
~ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
My wife gives good headache.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from hunger for the light.
~ Victor Hugo
Hey! Wait! I've got a new complaint! Forever in debt to your priceless advice.
~ Kurt Cobain
Carnsarn ye for a pair of busted-down, walleyed, spavined ignorantipedes! Gettin' so a man can't even git ten winks on his own chuck wagon without you buzzard baits clownin' up!
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Ya, Kahyangan memang tak adil. Atau bisa adil dalam ketakadilan. Kita bisa mengeluh, mengejek, memaki-maki, memohon, mengelabui, menghujat, berbaik-baik, berteman, bahkan bercinta dengan para dewa, tapi kita telah belajar untuk tidak mengharapkan lebih banyak lagi dari uluran "niat baik" mereka.
~ Laksmi Pamuntjak
Well, it seems a bit silly, looking there," said Will. "It's not like Mortmain's going to lodge a complaint against the Shadow-hunters through official channels. 'Very upset Shadowhunters refused to all die when I wanted them to. Demand recompense. Please mail cheque to A. Mortmain, 18 Kensington Road—
~ Cassandra Clare
The phone rang in the comm. center. Ian consulted the monitor. "It's Dan." He pressed a button. "Kabra here." Dan's voice crackled through the attic. "Don't say it like that," he complained. "Your name still gives me heartburn.
~ Gordon Korman
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
~ Mark Twain
Then there's the one about the fellow who complained of the excessive heat the other day, when the thermometer read 90. "It isn't hot, brother," comforted a war correspondent just back from Ethiopia, "until the chair gets up when you do!"
~ Walter Winchell, August 1937
Some romantic you are, Caine complained as he pushed the door open with his back.Whatever happened to women who liked to be swept off their feet? They got dropped, Diana said flatly.
~ Nora Roberts
There's no law saying I can't bitch about it first.
~ Nora Roberts
drones convened on stools and soft, low-slung couches, whipping out the measuring tape to see who had the biggest complaint and trying to forget that the minute you bury the miserable day it rises from its coffin the next morning, this monster. Jennifer's invite text received an eager response. She was a quick drinker who bullied and heckled her comrades into keeping pace. She'd make sure he got a full dose of medicine.
~ Colson Whitehead
Happy hour was impenetrable, as bedraggled drones convened on stools and soft, low-slung couches, whipping out the measuring tape to see who had the biggest complaint and trying to forget that the minute you bury the miserable day it rises from its coffin the next morning, this monster. Jennifer's invite text received an eager response. She was a quick drinker who bullied and heckled her comrades into keeping pace. She'd make sure he got a full dose of medicine.
~ Colson Whitehead
Murderers sow death, and complain of the desert. (Meurtriers sèment la mort, - Et se plaignent du désert.)
~ Charles de Leusse
Somebody put too many olives in my martini last night.
~ W. C. Fields, 1941
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
~ Harold Coffin, unverified
A Christmas shopper's complaint is one of long-standing.
~ Author Unknown
I have heard experimental physicist complain sotto voce that some of the best theoreticians have largely stopped doing physics and started to indulge in what is sometimes described as 'mathematical masturbation'.
~ Graham Farmelo
If you have attended the dying, you know what their last moments are like. They anticipate the separation of themselves from the world of the living before you do, and they accept it with dignity and without complaint
~ James Lee Burke
I look like prep school Barbie, Nudge complained, as she entered the kitchen. She caught sight of me in my uniform and looked mollified. Actually, you like prep school Barbie. I'm just Barbie's friend.
~ James Patterson
Many people are never happier than when they get the opportunity to complain, while others are deeply unhappy with how things are but just accept the fact. Complaint occurs when we refuse to accept that things are wrong and we do something about it, even if that something is simply articulating our unease.
~ Julian Baggini