Curmudgeon Quotes

“Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

“It is impossible to ostracize a lone wolf.”
― Joseph Annaruma

“Carrying a plate on which she'd placed a sandwich made with burlap bread, she looked over my shoulder.”
― Julia Glass, The Widower's Tale

“Her cheeriness grates as always, but with Jennifer he senses that it is a true reflection of her inner self and not some act, and that stops him from vomiting his disdain onto her scarf. One doesn’t shout at a lame girl for her limp, or upbraid a blind man for his lack of sight. She is entitled to her disability.”
― William Lashner, Freedom Road

“The most horrible thing that happens to people is bitterness. They all get so bitter.”
― John Fante

“Eunan was against anything without set purpose and complete predictability and a human tended to fail on these requirements… He mocked anything frivolous: placemats, dessert, having a lie-in, suffering from your nerves. 'Get away out of that!' he'd shout at cream cakes and people with hay fever. To him harsh words weren't a bad thing, they were just a little sandpaper, giving a person a hard-wearing exterior. 'I was often spoken to harshly and it's done me no harm, he'd say and no one dared disagree.”
― Garrett Carr, The Boy from the Sea

“You could say that we were just a bunch of curmudgeons--a small, cantankerous circle of middle-aged men trying to stave off their impending irrelevance.”
― Lewis DeSimone, Exit Wounds