Best Sulky Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Littles Self Sometimes Stars Sleep Assuming Pops Unhappy Schedules Bathroom Nobody Knows Ungrateful Pop Stars Self Absorbed Sulky

Author:Christina Aguilera

“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.”

Ifs Sometimes Facts Law Mother Father Son Appearance Sentimental Destined In-laws Courtship Sulky Son-in-law

Book:The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

Source: The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

“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.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Looks Important Father Party Proud Excited Worried Maintaining Brides Precision Doubtful Facial Bridal Bridegroom Bridesmaids Sulky Demure Father Of The Bride

Book:Miss Manners on Weddings

Source: Miss Manners on Weddings

“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.”

People Way Long Hurt Extraordinary Ridiculous Accusing Unkindness Vindictive Sulky

Book:Tales of the wide Caribbean

Source: Tales of the wide Caribbean

“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.”

Ifs Men Littles Soul Joy Force He Man Arms Sorrow Hundred Conscience Labor Workers Shed Tranquility Thorough Sulky

Author:William Wilberforce

“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.”

Community Investing Instant Highways Courtesy Gratification Toddler Immediate Gratification Sulky

Author:Faye Kellerman

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

Poor Rich Gold Cheerful Sulky

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“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.”

People Whole Courses Realizing Blame Buying Construction Sulky

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“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.”

Young Secret Broken Mountain Lonely Green Snow Weather Ice Landscape Gentle Fifty Worn Echoes Delivery Skis Slopes Jolly Crevice Sulky

Book:Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)

Source: Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)

“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.”

Way Faces Joy Fields Labor Boring Theologian Morose Sulky

Author:Karl Barth

“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.”

Wells Silence Clean Complaining Shirts Pants Stink Sulky No Complaining

Author:Maria V. Snyder

“Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns”

Warm Wrath Nursing Sulky

Author:Robert Burns

“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.”

Way Giving Believe Facts Feelings Order Wish Sides Imagination My Own Honest Pure Accounts Remains Lazy Hypothesis Unifying Rigour Sulky

Book:The diary of Antoine Roquentin

Source: The diary of Antoine Roquentin

“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.”

Facts Roles Laughing Knowing Shots Motive Sincere Pretending Squares Lowest Glances Earnest Chins Mazes Fingertips Rakes Wry Convoluted Sulky Wry Smile

Book:Lord of Fire

Source: Lord of Fire

“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.”

Thinking Ends Mouths Let Me Me Alone Dump Sulky

Book:Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection

Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection

“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.”

Thinking Way Said Reason Christ Hurt Ought Drama Tragedy Tired Caught Upset Girlfriend Smoking No Reason My Girlfriend Pissed Off Dumped Cranky I'm Sad Let Her Go Pudge Sulky

Author:John Green

“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.”

People Ifs Want Important Care Hate Hell Position Positive Weak Assuming Affection Don't Care Spread I Don't Care Guts Worthless Spirited Important Questions Sulky

Author:William S. Burroughs

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

Faces Young Sulky

Author:Maureen O'Hara

“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.”

Said Animal Words Of Wisdom Remains Hungry Distinction Lions Appetite Savages Sulky

Book:The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

Source: The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

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

Joy Labour Theologian Morose Sulky

Author:Karl Barth

“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.”

Moments Seems Offers Expected Rejects That Moment Sulking Sulky

Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“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.”

Thinking Trying Children Persons Doe Sleep Willing Communication Messages Patterns Carrie Hitting Tantrums Sulky Belligerence

Author:Christopher Page