Sulky Quotes

• When I was young, I was told that I had a sulky, pouty face.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Faces, Young

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• Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

  Charles Dickens

  Animal, Words Of Wisdom, Savages

  Charles Dickens (1843). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.193

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• I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thinking, Mouths, Dump

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• We think of communication as words. But a screaming child is trying to say something. A tantrum carries a message. Hitting is communication. Sleep patterns carry a message. Even the sulky belligerence of a teen is an attempt to convey a message. Everything the child does says something to the person who is willing to take the time to listen carefully.

  Christopher Page

  Children, Communication, Sleep

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• Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Cheerful, Gold, Rich

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• I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but I sense so definitely that they come from me, and that they are simply a way of unifying my own knowledge. Not a glimmer comes from Rollebon's side. Slow, lazy, sulky, the facts adapt themselves to the rigour of the order I wish to give them; but it remains outside of them. I have the feeling of doing a work of pure imagination.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Believe, Order, Giving

  Jean Paul Sartre (1949). “The diary of Antoine Roquentin”

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• I have no one to blame for the construction for myself, of course, but I'm always surprised and slightly sulky when I realizeВ people are buying the whole thing.

  Jonathan Lethem

  People, Buying, Blame

  "Fear of Music". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. May 29, 2012.

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• It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

  C. S. Lewis

  Moments, That Moment, Rejects

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.

  William S. Burroughs

  Positive, Hate, People

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• Did she just-" "Yes." "But I don't-" "Yes you do. We both stink." "Well, I'm not-" "Yes. You are." He huffed. "You wont let-" "No. No complaining. Let's go." I grabbed a clean shirt and pants from my saddlebags. "Well, she could have handled it better," he grumped. "No. She couldn't." He settled into a sulky silence as we visited the bathhouse.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Silence, Complaining, Pants

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• People who see an unhappy, sulky pop star assume that she's an ungrateful, self-absorbed little ninny. But nobody knows what's really going on. I need to eat, I need to sleep, and sometimes those things weren't considered. It was like, "When do you think I'll have time to go to the bathroom?" That wasn't on the schedule.

  Christina Aguilera

  Stars, Sleep, Thinking

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• We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky.

  Faye Kellerman

  Community, Investing, Toddler

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• Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Joy, Soul

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• I was so tired of her getting upset for no reason. The way she would get sulky and make references to the freaking oppressive nature of tragedy or whatever but then never said what was wrong, never have any goddamned reason to be sad. And I just think you ought to have a reason. My girlfriend dumped me, so I'm sad. I got caught smoking, so I'm pissed off. My head hurts, so I'm cranky. She never had a reason, Pudge. I was just so tired of putting up with her drama. And I just let her go. Christ.

  John Green

  Girlfriend, Hurt, Drama

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• The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.

  Karl Barth

  Joy, Way, Fields

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• Precision marching is less important for the bridal party than maintaining the proper facial expresssions: The bridegroom must look awed; the bridesmaids, happy and excited; the father of the bride, proud; and the bride, demure. If the bridegroom feels doubtful, the bridesmaids, sulky, the father, worried, and the bride, blasé, nobody wants to know.

  Judith Martin

  Father, Party, Important

  Judith Martin (1999). “Miss Manners on Weddings”, Crown

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• Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns

  Robert Burns

  Nursing, Wrath, Warm

  Robert Burns, “Tam O' Shanter”

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• If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Mother, Father, Son

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.144

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• The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.

  Karl Barth

  Joy, Theologian, Morose

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• I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous.

  Jean Rhys

  Hurt, Long, People

  Jean Rhys (1985). “Tales of the wide Caribbean”, Heinemann Educational Publishers

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• I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come across as though you had the lowest of motives, when in fact, you were sincere?” “Precisely.” She gave a short, wry laugh and shook her head at him. “Convoluted sir! You are a maze.” He shot her a sulky glance. “I thought you were going to say I was amazing.” “That, too,” she admitted with a rueful smile, capturing his square chin between her fingertips.

  Gaelen Foley

  Knowing, Wry Smile, Squares

  Gaelen Foley (2002). “Lord of Fire”, p.175, Ballantine Books

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• The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski slopes, but young, sulky, adolescent mountains. They held secret ravines and merciless crevices. One yodel out of place would attract, not the jolly echo of a lonely goatherd, but fifty tons of express-delivery snow.

  Terry Pratchett

  Lonely, Echoes, Ice

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.342, Random House

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