"Sneerer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... upon me, churlish Priest! that I Look not for Life, where life may never be: I am no sneerer at thy phantasy; Thou pitiest me, alas! I envy thee, Thou bold Discoverer in an unknown sea Of happy Isles and happier Tenants there; I ask thee not to prove a Sadducee;[Sec.1] Still dream of Paradise, thou know'st not where,[Sec.2] Which if it be thy sins ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron
... Book at once grieved and pleased me, as most of his writings do. I have come to the conclusion that whenever he writes, Mephistopheles stands on his right hand and Raphael on his left; the great doubter and sneerer usually guides the pen, the Angel, noble and gentle, interlines letters of light here and there. Alas! Thackeray, I wish your strong wings would lift you oftener above the smoke of cities into ...
— Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle • Clement K. Shorter
... I did entirely understand. Her father was one of a rapidly increasing class of men who are a danger to the community,— a cold, cynical shatterer of every noble ideal,—a sneerer at patriotism and honour,—a deliberate iconoclast of the most callous and remorseless type. That he had good points in his character was not to be denied,—a murderer may have these. But to be in his company for very long was to ...
— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli
... not make mistakes does not do anything. He is an onlooker and a sneerer. Mein Fraulein does much, and the mistakes not yet are many. The good God is helping her, and He in her heart puts wonder as to why things be as they be, and love that she may try them to better make. But He will ...
— Miss Gibbie Gault • Kate Langley Bosher
... you did, you young sneerer,' he said like a cross baby. 'You are laughing at me—that's who you are laughing at! I should like to know what you would do without such as me if the French were to drop in upon ye ...
— The Trumpet-Major • Thomas Hardy |
