logo

Quotes About Complaint

In the letter, Agnese's scribe, after complaining about how unclear the previous message was, went on to describe, in an almost equally clear manner, what he called the tremendous story of that person.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
as lover's complaint was noted, perhaps, by the one who knew to find it, and for the rest of the room, only artistic caprice—the
~ Alexander Chee
The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.
~ Alexander Pope
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
~ Alexander Smith
My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity.
~ John Updike
My complaint is that Americans drive me crazy, and the politics drive me crazy.
~ William Klein
I have a complaint with regressive shows. The kind of stories I want to be a part of are not happening. I can't underutilise myself.
~ Vikrant Massey
There's definitely a lack of self-belief in many players, which is the only complaint I have about men's tennis.
~ Mats Wilander
Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.
~ Richard Harris Barham
Oh, come on!' Percy complained. 'I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That's not fair!
~ Rick Riordan
The first time Calypso came to check on [Leo], it was to complain about the noise. "Smoke and fire," she said. "Clanging on metal all day long. You're scaring away the birds!" "Oh, no, not the birds!
~ Rick Riordan
She's touching me , George complained as he and Martha slithered around the pole. 'She's always touching you,' Hermes said. 'You are intertwined. And if you don't stop that, you'll get knotted again!
~ Rick Riordan
Stopping to whine is only going to get us nabbed by the cops when that bastard calls 911." "I wasn't whining," I said. "Close enough.
~ Kelley Armstrong
su educación le había enseñado que actuar era preferible a quejarse.
~ Ken Follett
Complaint is a prayer to the devil.
~ Michael Beckwith
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.
~ William Shakespeare
didn't even know that Dani knew Laurie and Andy. My instinct is to complain about this; I hate when people pay attention to my birthday. I especially hate when people do things behind my back, even when they are well-intentioned. But I don't want to be an asshole; Dani went out of her way to do something nice. It's going to happen anyway, so there's nothing to be gained by acting like my normal, idiotic self. It's possible I may be maturing.
~ David Rosenfelt
An anonymously written piece about 1900 has the letter H complaining to the Cockneys that it has been banished "from 'ouse, from 'ome, from 'ope, from 'eaven; and placed by your most learned society in Hexile, Hanguish and Hanxiety.
~ David Sacks
Now I am covered in knickers!" she complained loudly. "I can never show my face in polite society again!
~ David Walliams
A complaint is a compliment of negativity.
~ Debasish Mridha
In their opinion, a tragedy with so little plot could not conform with the rules of drama. I enquired whether they were complaining that they had found my play boring. I was told that none of them was bored, that they were often touched by it, and that they would go and see it again with pleasure. What more do they want?
~ Jean Racine
But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.
~ Jeff Lindsay
pleased to observe, that you submit to reason and necessity without indulging useless complaint. I applaud this conduct exceedingly, the more, perhaps, since it discovers a strength of mind seldom observable in your sex.
~ Eliza Parsons
The ideal woman, a kind of faithful slave, who administers without a word of complaint and certainly no payment, who speaks only when spoken to and is a jolly good chap. But a revolution is on the way, all over the country young girls are starting and shaking and if they terrify you they mean to
~ Ali Smith