Sneer Quotes

• The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • People
  • Hope
  • Neighbor

• A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.

  

  Esther Meynell
  • Horse
  • Disposition
  • Sneer

• Who can refute a sneer?

  

  William Paley
  • Sneer
  • Refute

• The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • Fame
  • Responsible
  • Superstar

• Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear, And scoff at your best endeavor. For the target art has a broad expanse, And wherever you chance to hit it, Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame, There are those who will never admit it.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Work
  • Art
  • Strong

• The next time anyone is inclined to sneer at the basics as "traditional," I suggest he or she visit with a 12th -or even a sixth-grader who can barely read, write or compute and look at the pain and frustration on that student's face.

  

  Albert Shanker
  • Time
  • She
  • Pain

• In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a - faces. But in the end those incredulous to what you put up with to help, no longer matter. It's not between you and those snobs, but with whom you have given your hand to lift, and of course to God who Is watching and noting it in your book.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Book
  • Helping
  • Volunteer

• The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.

  

  Cassius Jackson Keyser
  • Past
  • Sneer