Sour Grapes Quotes

• Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Philosophical, Emotional, Oil

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Wise, Adversity

  William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (1993). “The Third Part of King Henry VI”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

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• My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

  Daisy Ashford

  Ashes, Absence, Grapes

  'The Young Visiters' (1919) ch. 8

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• There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.

  Frank Gehry

  Done, Stuff, Sour

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• There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

  Edith Wharton

  Sympathy, Attitude, Gold

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• The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Funny, Summer

  "Sun of gOd: Discover the Self-Organizing Consciousness That Underlies Everything". Book by Gregory Sams (p. 78), May 1, 2009.

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• I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

  Aesop

  Grapes, Sour, Ripe

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• The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

  Neil Kinnock

  Vanity, Political, Killers

  "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Cocoons, Sugar

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• He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wine, Mouths, Taste

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.838, Delphi Classics

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• Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Morning, Regret, Drinking

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.76, Bantam

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• I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Independent, People, Benefits

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.176, Random House

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• The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Vocabulary, Grapes, Sour

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• I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say.

  Mike Tyson

  Hate, Sound, Cry

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Dennis has not behaved well and the fact he has taken it with bad grace shows we made the right decision. It smacks of sour grapes. He said he would be happy to continue playing as long as the new manager wanted him so in no way was he misled. He said he was assured the job was his, but that is simply not true.

  Rupert Lowe

  Jobs, Lying, Taken

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• There is this school of thought that says the usage of all mystical and occult powers is bad. I find that thought is usually propounded by people who don't have any powers. It's kind of a sour grapes attitude.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attitude, School, Power

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• I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

  John Hawkes

  Men, Film, Grapes

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• Sometimes I think that love is one big fairy tale. I wonder if people who say they are in love, if – really – they’ve just talked themselves into it. They want it so badly, they kind of make it happen. They fake it until they start believing their own story. Maybe that’s just sour grapes or something. Maybe because it doesn’t happen to me, I don’t want to think it happens to anyone else.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Believe, Thinking, Love Is

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• I don't want awards. I am not saying this like it's a case of sour grapes. It isn't. I have been to a couple of award functions, and I soon realised that it doesn't give me the kick that it does to others.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Couple, Awards, Giving

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• It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

  Black Francis

  Mean, People, Levels

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• You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.

  Paul Newman

  Real, Blessing, Appreciate

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• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  Larry Hovis

  Writing, Mean, Kind

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• I have to tell you, and I don't mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder.

  Roger Daltrey

  Mean, Play, Fans

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• I do hear snippets on the radio. I do hear a little bit of me, sometimes great chunks of me. But I have to take that as a compliment; there's no way you can get sour grapes about that. But if somebody starts taking your whole new thing lock, stock, and barrel, and do their own version of it before you do it, that's not on.

  Jeff Beck

  Locks, Radio, Littles

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• I didn't watch the Emmys because - well, for one, I have been to awards shows, and I understand how it works. For another, sour grapes. Actually, that's probably number one.

  Kurt Fuller

  Numbers, Awards, Watches

  Source: www.avclub.com

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