Snideness Quotes & Sayings

In Amma's snideness, I caught a whiff of desperation and righteousness. Like she'd whined at breakfast: "I wish I'd be murdered." Amma didn't want anyone to get more attention than her. Certainly not girls who couldn't compete when they were alive. — Gillian Flynn

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government. — Frederick Douglass

She would thrust these thoughts away, miserable and horrified, wondering if there was any lower limit to the human spirit at its nasty, calculating, self-serving worst, not wanting to know. — Stephen King

This was Jace being brave. Simon thought, brave and snarky because he thought Lilith was going to kill him, and that was the way he wanted to go, unafraid and on his feet. Like a warrior. The way Shadowhunters did. His death song would always be this-jokes and snideness and pretend arrogance, and that look in his eyes that said 'I'm better than you'. Simon just hadn't realized it before. — Cassandra Clare

A little man often cast a long shadow. — G. M. Trevelyan

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence. — John Wyndham

I could imagine it in a way that felt like remembering — Ben Lerner

Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted. — Samuel Johnson

Golf is golf. You hit the ball, you go find it. Then you hit it again. — Lon Hinkle

Sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas. — Sarah Kane

In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality very well ... Realism is the heart of execution, but many organizations are full of people who are trying to avoid or shade reality. Why? It makes life uncomfortable. — Lawrence Bossidy

Moral writing is boring. — Johan Van Wyk

Soon, she and the rest of them would be ironic much of the time, unable to answer an innocent question without giving their words a snide little adjustment. Fairly soon after that, the snideness would soften, the irony would be mixed in with seriousness, and the years would shorten and fly. — Meg Wolitzer

Living had got to be such a habit with him that he couldn't conceive of any other condition. — Flannery O'Connor

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures. — Khalil Gibran