Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
Quotes about sneering (9 Quotes)
The New York Times ran a Tom Tomorrow cartoon sneering about Americans who believe with 'unwavering faith in an invisible omniscient deity who favors those born in the middle of the North American land mass.' This is how liberals conceive of America an undifferentiated land mass in the middle of North America.
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and tr
I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks.
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
Their sort of ugly, sneering, amused attitude at the slaughter of innocent people is just horrific,
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
Some that will hold a creed unto martyrdom will not hold the truth against a sneering laugh
DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy it required ten of them to raise a rock or a riot that one of the heroes of the Trojan war could have raised with ease. Homer never tires of sneering at men who live in these degenerate days, which is perhaps why they suffered him to beg his bread --a marked instance of returning good for evil, by the way, for if they had forbidden him he would certainly have starved.