Best Sour Grapes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

People Knows Want Mean Levels Grapes Sour Examining Couplets Sour Grapes

Author:Black Francis

“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.”

“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.”

People Kind School Attitude Power Mystical Grapes Occult Sour Usage Sour Grapes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Want Giving Doe Has Beens Cases Couple Function Give Me Kicks Awards Realised Grapes Sour Sour Grapes

Author:Emraan Hashmi

“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.”

People Knows Able Rich Benefits Independent Concentration Despise Just Being Resorts Rich People Grapes Sour Fart Skis Being Rich Sour Grapes

Book:Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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

Done Stuff Grapes Sour Sour Grapes

Author:Frank Gehry

“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.”

Wells Has Beens Shows Numbers Watches Awards Grapes Sour Emmys Award Shows Sour Grapes

Author:Kurt Fuller

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

Grapes Ripe Sour Sour Grapes

Author:Aesop

“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.”

Hate Sound Cry I Hate Grapes Sour Listen To Me Sour Grapes

Author:Mike Tyson

“The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.”

Vocabulary Grapes Sour Snob Sour Grapes

Author:Logan Pearsall Smith

“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.”

Men Film Type Enjoyed Delusion Grapes Sour Best Film Sour Grapes

Author:John Hawkes

“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.”

Mean Hard Play Fans Harder Grapes Sour Sour Grapes

Author:Roger Daltrey

“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.”

Ifs Way Littles Sometimes Whole Bits Little Bit Radio Versions Compliment New Things Locks Grapes Barrels Sour Chunks Sour Grapes Lock Stock

Author:Jeff Beck

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

Men Inspirational Courses Wise Let Me Adversity Embrace Thee Wisest Overcoming Adversity Sour Wisest Man Inspirational Adversity Adversity And Character Adversity In Life Sour Grapes

Book:The Third Part of King Henry VI

Source: The Third Part of King Henry VI

“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.”

People Emotional Philosophical Oil Compromise Submission Grapes Sour Boiling Sour Grapes

Book:Save Me the Waltz: A Novel

Source: Save Me the Waltz: A Novel

“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.”

Made Morning Regret Drink Right Now Wine Drinking Grapes Sour Hysteria Sour Grapes

Book:The Peach Keeper: A Novel

Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Believe Kind Sometimes Stories Bigs Happens Love Is Wonder Tales Fake Fairy Fairy Tale Grapes Make It Happen Sour Sour Grapes

Author:Elizabeth Chandler

“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.”

People Real Able Actors Lost Loses Walks Attention Streets Blessing Fame Appreciate Reputation Pay Attention Grapes Sour Anonymity Sour Grapes

Author:Paul Newman

“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.”

Lasts Attitude Too Much Industry Taste Gold Native Sympathy Representatives Plates Feeding Preference Banking Bankers Grapes Sour My Sympathy Bankers And Banks Sour Grapes

Author:Edith Wharton

“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.”

Writing Kind Mean Wanted Produce Theater Grapes Sour Sour Grapes

Author:Larry Hovis

“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.”

Way Wells Long Made Said Facts Shows Would Be Wanted Jobs Lying Decision Taken Grace Managers Deceit Assured Grapes Sour Smack Right Decision Misled Sour Grapes

Author:Rupert Lowe

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

Ifs Sweet Patient Sugar Worms Be Patient Grapes Silk Sour Reeds Cocoons Sour Grapes Something Sweet

Author:Rumi

“My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.”

Absence Ashes Without You Grapes Sour Sour Grapes

Author:Daisy Ashford

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

Taste Mouths Wine Flats Sour Grapes

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

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

Political Sin Vanity Diets Killers Grapes Sour Unforgivable Sour Grapes

Author:Neil Kinnock

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