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• Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer.

  Steven Morrissey

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Voice

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear, And scoff at your best endeavor. For the target art has a broad expanse, And wherever you chance to hit it, Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame, There are those who will never admit it.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Art, Strong, Clever

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1067, Delphi Classics

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• It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial . . . Christmas trees . . . but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence; yes, and its beauty, too.

  Paul Gallico

  Beauty, Party, Cities

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• The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Science, Secret, Progress

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 8, 1799.

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• Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Perseverance, Kindness

  William Wordsworth (2012). “William Wordsworth: Everyman's Poetry”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• Will none wipe the sneer off the face of the cosmos?

  Poul Anderson

  Science, Cosmos, Wipe

  "The Broken Sword".

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• There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites.

  Arthur Helps

  Honesty, Hypocrite, Expression

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• The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.

  Lucy Stone

  Inspirational, Acceptance, World

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• I glanced, wide eyed, from Edward's grimace to Jacob's sneer.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Grimace, Jacob, Wide

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Where are you heading, if you’ve got the choice?” James lifted an invisible sword. “‘Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!’ Like my dad.” Snape made a small, disparaging noise. James turned on him. “Got a problem with that?” “No,” said Snape, though his slight sneer said otherwise. “If you’d rather be brawny than brainy —” “Where’re you hoping to go, seeing as you’re neither?” interjected Sirius.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dad, Heart, Choices

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• The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.

  George William Curtis

  Book, Ignorance, Intelligent

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• 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.

  Holly Black

  Mother, Blow, Trials

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.

  Matt Groening

  Rocks, Ugly, Rock N Roll

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• I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true.

  Leslie Charteris

  Laughter, Believe, Fighting

  "The Last Hero".

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• No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  People, No Friends, Groups

  Megan Whalen Turner (2017). “World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves”, p.20, HarperCollins

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• If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he will leave the room if you are drunk. If you make a fool of yourself in front a dog, he will make a fool of himself, too.

  Chuck Jones

  Dog, Cat, Drunk

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• Warlock D. J. Prod of Didsbury says: “My wife used to sneer at my feeble charms, but one month into your fabulous Kwikspell course and I succeeded in turning her into a yak! Thank you, Kwikspell!

  J. K. Rowling

  Wife, Fabulous, Months

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• The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense in the present era than the Marxist relativist and historical approach. The pacifists also seem to be more realistic than the Marxist both in their understanding of modern war and also in their attempts to do something about it.

  Dwight Macdonald

  War, Character, Rejection

  Dwight Macdonald (194?). “Root is man: progressivism vrs. radicalism”

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• As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Laughing, Littles, Faces

  "Winning Lines". Interview with Peter Forbes, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2002.

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• A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.

  Esther Meynell

  Horse, Disposition, Contemptuous

  Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

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• Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Fashion, Distance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.387

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• So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

  Carl Sandburg

  Strong, Cities, Giving

  "Chicago" l. 10 (1916)

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• Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

  Ann Voskamp

  Pain, Giving, World

  Ann Voskamp (2012). “One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Graces”, p.197, Zondervan

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• Copy is not written. If anyone tells you ‘you write copy’, sneer at them. Copy is not written. Copy is assembled. You do not write copy, you assemble it. You are working with a series of building blocks, you are putting the building blocks together, and then you are putting them in certain structures, you are building a little city of desire for your person to come and live in.

  Eugene Schwartz

  Block, Writing, Cities

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• Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in some general-purpose value words. You throw in a sneer or two about the opposition, and you are a fine fellow who made a fine speech.

  Edward de Bono

  Two, Suits You, Perception

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