Sour Grapes Quotes

• La mayoría de la gente talla las almenas de la vida a partir del compromiso, erigiendo sus torreones inexpugnables a partir de juiciosas sumisiones, fabricando sus puentes levadizos filosóficos a partir de retracciones emocionales y escaldando a los merodeadores en el aceite hirviendo de las uvas agrias.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Filosófico, Emocional, Petróleo

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). "Sálvame el vals: A Novel", p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Déjame abrazarte, agria adversidad, pues los sabios dicen que es el camino más sabio.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspiración, Sabiduría, Adversidad

  William Shakespeare Michael Hattaway (1993). "The Third Part of King Henry VI", p.129, Cambridge University Press

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• My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

  Daisy Ashford

  Ashes, Absence, Grapes

  'The Young Visiters' (1919) ch. 8

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

  Frank Gehry

  Done, Stuff, Sour

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• 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.

  Edith Wharton

  Sympathy, Attitude, Gold

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• El sol, con todos esos planetas que giran a su alrededor y dependen de él, aún puede madurar un racimo de uvas como si no tuviera nada más que hacer en el universo.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspiración, Divertido, Verano

  "Sol de Dios: Descubre la conciencia autoorganizadora que subyace a todo". Libro de Gregory Sams (p. 78), 1 de mayo de 2009.

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• Pensé que estas uvas estaban maduras, pero ahora veo que están bastante agrias.

  Esopo

  Grapes, Sour, Ripe

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

  Neil Kinnock

  Vanity, Political, Killers

  "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• De la caña de azúcar, azúcar. Del capullo de un gusano, seda. Ten paciencia si puedes, y de las uvas agrias saldrá algo dulce.

  Rumi

  Dulce, Capullos, Azúcar

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wine, Mouths, Taste

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.838, Delphi Classics

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• Ahora mismo todo el mundo está bebiendo vino malo hecho de uvas agrias e histeria. Que se lo beban y que se arrepientan por la mañana.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Morning, Regret, Drinking

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.76, Bantam

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• 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.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Independent, People, Benefits

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.176, Random House

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• The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Vocabulary, Grapes, Sour

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• 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.

  Mike Tyson

  Hate, Sound, Cry

  Fuente: articles.latimes.com

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• 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.

  Rupert Lowe

  Jobs, Lying, Taken

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• Hay una corriente de pensamiento que dice que el uso de todos los poderes místicos y ocultos es malo. Me parece que ese pensamiento suele ser propuesto por personas que no tienen ningún poder. Es una especie de actitud agria.

  Federico Lenz

  Actitud, Escuela, Poder

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• Nunca me he hecho ilusiones de ser un protagonista, y no es agrio decir que en las mejores películas que siempre he disfrutado, el tipo de protagonista cliché no forma parte del cuadro.

  John Hawkes

  Men, Film, Grapes

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• A veces pienso que el amor es un gran cuento de hadas. Me pregunto si las personas que dicen estar enamoradas no se habrán convencido a sí mismas. Lo desean tanto que lo hacen realidad. Lo fingen hasta que empiezan a creerse su propia historia. Tal vez eso es sólo uvas agrias o algo así. Tal vez porque no me pasa a mí, no quiero pensar que le pasa a nadie más.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Creer, Pensar, El Amor Es

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• 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.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Couple, Awards, Giving

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• 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.

  Francisco Negro

  Mean, People, Levels

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• 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.

  Paul Newman

  Real, Blessing, Appreciate

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• 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.

  Larry Hovis

  Writing, Mean, Kind

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• 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.

  Roger Daltrey

  Mean, Play, Fans

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• 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.

  Jeff Beck

  Locks, Radio, Littles

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• 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.

  Kurt Fuller

  Numbers, Awards, Watches

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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