Scolding Quotes

• Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Family, Mom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

  Charlotte Gray

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• What then remains, but well our power to use,
  And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose?
  And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail,
  When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

  Alexander Pope

  Character, Air, Use

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem”, p.124

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• There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

  John Calvin

  Pride, People, Giving

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.39, Baker Books

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• Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

  Mason Cooley

  Delight, Literature, Critics

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• In life, when you start to fall, you don't have to go crazy, scolding yourself and further throwing yourself off balance. Instead, simply make adjustments.

  Brenda Strong

  Crazy, Fall, Balance

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• You can't be a bad boy without somebody scolding you.

  David Rasche

  Boys, Bad Boy

  "Sledge Hammer! star David Rasche on the fun of puncturing American gun culture". Interview with John Teti, tv.avclub.com. January 16, 2016.

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• Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.

  Don Kardong

  Athlete, Kids, Race

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• Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Truth, May, Logic

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• I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.

  Anne Frank

  Hurt, Feelings, Deeds

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• Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to scold. You need only three things, really. You need time, to think up scolding things to say. You need effort, to put these scolding things in a good order, so that the scolding can be more and more insulting to the person being scolded. And you need chutzpah, which is a word for the sort of show-offy courage it takes to stand in front of someone and give them a good scolding, particularly if they are exhausted and sore and not in the mood to hear it.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Fun, Thinking

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• When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

  Libba Bray

  Family, Home, Guilt

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• Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of other women as the sound of a shrill whine at table.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Husband, Food, Men

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.748, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, Incessant, Customs

  Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton, William Carew Hazlitt (2012). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.157, Courier Corporation

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• Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Husband, Lying, Humorous

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Friendship, Real, Intelligent

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.267, OUP Oxford

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• What I didn't really understand, but then I thought this makes perfect sense, as well - was how many people responded to it by being like, "It was just so nice to take a break." Because even the humor - the great stuff that Samantha Bee and John Oliver and Seth Meyers are doing - it's all anger humor. And for somebody to say, "Hey, we're all idiots," and just be able to laugh at ourselves and be able to connect through that. It's always about connecting with someone, never about scolding them. The only thing I knew right upfront is we're not going after [Donald] Trump supporters.

  Joss Whedon

  Nice, People, Perfect

  "Joss Whedon Explains Why Donald Trump Is America’s Scariest Big Bad". Interview With Patrick Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. November 1, 2016.

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• I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of a judicious mother more than all the rods, dark rooms, end scolding school-mistresses in the universe.

  Henry Kirke White

  Mother, Children, School

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• What elevates the human soul and empowers it to live in the fullness of its created purpose is not religious intimidation or new rules or an anxiety induced by spiritual scoldings. It is faith in the promise that the enjoyment sin brings is fleeting and futile, but at God's right hand, and in the presence of His radiant glory, are pleasures evermore (Ps. 16:11).

  Sam Storms

  Spiritual, Religious, Hands

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• Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training." Since when does "overseeing" include throwing knives at me and scolding me at every opportunity?

  Veronica Roth

  Daughter, Opportunity, Knives

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• Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

  Lillian Hellman

  Mean, Self, Justice

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• When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, Moral, Wonder

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• Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

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• Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is!

  Brigham Young

  Sweet, Children, Teaching

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• Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love." -- James Rollins

  James Rollins

  Husband, Wife, Age

  FaceBook post by James Rollins from May 03, 2012

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