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• the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.

  Georgia Harkness

  Religious, Philosophical, Men

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• A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Heartless

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• It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Artist, Obscurity, Use

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• The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Discipline, Demand, Annoying

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• Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.

  Seth Godin

  Regret, Long, Choices

  "Sooner or later, the critics move on". sethgodin.typepad.com. August 24, 2015.

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• In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess-fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men he cannot handle them. Neither can he influence them in his favor if he dislikes or scorns them. He must neither cringe nor sneer. He must have both self-respect and respect for others.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Respect, Fear, Men

  "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life". Forbes magazine, 1950.

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• Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Love, Boys, Men

  Louis Auchincloss (2002). “The Rector of Justin”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Jan Morris

  Vegas, Cities, Mountain

  Jan Morris (1985). “Journeys”, p.24, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on the theory that they should live surrounded by the finest stuff. The Mall of America is built on the premise that we should all be able to afford this stuff. It may be a shallow culture, but it's by-God democratic. Sneer if you dare; this is something new in world history.

  Molly Ivins

  Kings, Shopping, Pyramids

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.94, Vintage

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• Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up to it, and says, 'What on earth are you doing?' The sparrow replies, 'I heard the sky was falling, and I wanted to help.'The warhorse sneers-- 'Do you really think you're going to hold back the sky, with those scrawny little legs?' And the sparrow says, 'One does what one can.'

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

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• I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Work, Profound, Doubt

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• If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may, no matter how generous and good his nature, one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Pain, Men

  "Oliver Twist".

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• In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a - faces. But in the end those incredulous to what you put up with to help, no longer matter. It's not between you and those snobs, but with whom you have given your hand to lift, and of course to God who Is watching and noting it in your book.

  Mother Teresa

  Book, Curves, Hands

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• She is not old, she is not young, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue. The haggard cheek, the hungering eye, The poisoned words that wildly fly, The famished face, the fevered hand, Who slights the worthiest in the land, Sneers at the just, contemns the brave, And blackens goodness in its grave.

  William Watson

  Anger, Eye, Hands

  William Watson (1909). “New Poems”

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• It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Spring, Light, Doubt

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• I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.

  Herbert Hoover

  Character, Criticism, Cottages

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.109, Stanford University Press

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• Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

  Lord Byron

  Medicine, Physicians, Ends

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer,
  I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer;
  To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two;
  I can tell a woman's age in half a minute--and I do

  W. S. Gilbert

  Two, Age, Prejudice

  'Princess Ida' (1884) act 1

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• I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our aims, the pettiness of our thoughts, the puerility of our conversation!

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Sex, Men, Vanity

  Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”

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• Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Lying, Embarrassing, Embarrassment

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• Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.

  Leon Blum

  World, Fascism, Indignation

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• I think I'll always be linked to comedy. There is something about it that's such a beautiful thing. The world of drama sneers at it because people assume that it's easy but it's not at all; it's incredibly difficult.

  Doc Brown

  Beautiful, Drama, Thinking

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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• Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Humble, Islands

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

  Beverly Sills

  Hype, Superstar, Fame

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• It's funny how sometimes historians sneer at journalists, yet they depend on us in the future for the material that they mine. You realize that some of the stories wouldn't have been told if you hadn't gotten to them. There is that sense of capturing a moment that was just about to go over the horizon.

  Lawrence Wright

  Sometimes, Realizing, Moments

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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