Grouches Quotes

I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.

Expressing criticism of society is not being a grouch.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'

I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

I just don't want to play the same guy again over and over.

The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but "flivver," "taxi," the "movies," "deadly" (meaning dull), "feeling fit," "feeling blue," "grafter," a "fake," "grouch," "hunch" and "right o!" are typical of words that it would make our spoken language stilted to exclude.

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

I`ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by no means overlooking the rough and rocky years I`ve lived through. But I was not brought up thinking life would be easy. I always expected to work hard for my money and to get nothing I did not earn. And the bad years, it seems to me, were so few that only a dyed-in-the-wool grouch who enjoys feeling sorry for himself would complain.

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.