Grouches Quotes:

If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.

- Winifred Holtby

topic: Fortune, Grouches

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

- Elbert Hubbard

source: Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

topic: Attitude, Two, Grouches

Expressing criticism of society is not being a grouch.

- Noam Chomsky

source: "Ezra Levant Interviewed Noam Chomsky and They Disagreed On Pretty Much Everything" by Chris Bilton |, www.vice.com. March 10 2015.

topic: Criticism, Grouches

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.

- Catherine Hall

topic: Cheerful, Charity, Lord, Grouches

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.

- Kin Hubbard

topic: Literature, Littles, Pay, Annoyance, Grouches

I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'

- George Steinbrenner

topic: Oscars, Roger, Economy, Grouches

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.

- Hume Cronyn

topic: Play, Mind, Want, Mind Playing, Grouches

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

- Helen Rowland

source: Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.62, Lulu.com

topic: Jest, Wit, Cynic, Peg, Grouches

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

- Groucho Marx

topic: Funny, Life, Clever, Being Sarcastic, Dark Sarcasm

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

- Groucho Marx

topic: Funny, Life, Work, Extreme Poverty, Grouches

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Witty, Funny Sarcastic, Dark Sarcasm

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

- Groucho Marx

source: "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", www.imdb.com. 1933.

topic: Funny, Witty, Crazy, Grouches, 1930s

I just don't want to play the same guy again over and over.

- Ray Romano

topic: Play, Guy, Want, Curveballs, Grouches

I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

- Groucho Marx

topic: Funny, Inspiration, Humor, Grouches

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

- Groucho Marx

topic: Funny, Witty, Inspiration, Grouches

The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but "flivver," "taxi," the "movies," "deadly" (meaning dull), "feeling fit," "feeling blue," "grafter," a "fake," "grouch," "hunch" and "right o!" are typical of words that it would make our spoken language stilted to exclude.

- Emily Post

source: Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Blue, Fake, Feelings, Spoken Language, Slang

I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.

- Paul Theroux

source: Paul Theroux (2001). “Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Believe, Optimism, Sunny, Sunny Disposition, Grouches

I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.

- Matthew Gray Gubler

topic: Thinking, Hair, Looks, Grouches

I`ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by no means overlooking the rough and rocky years I`ve lived through. But I was not brought up thinking life would be easy. I always expected to work hard for my money and to get nothing I did not earn. And the bad years, it seems to me, were so few that only a dyed-in-the-wool grouch who enjoys feeling sorry for himself would complain.

- Buster Keaton

source: Buster Keaton, Charles Samuels (2015). “My Wonderful World Of Slapstick”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing

topic: Sorry, Mean, Hard Work, Overlooking, Feeling Sorry