SNEER

Related Subjects: Contempt, Cynicism, Insult

1. There was a laughing devil in his sneer.—BYRON, The Corsair
   

2. I can't help it, I was born sneering.—W. S. GILBERT, The Mikado
   

3. A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.—LOWELL
   

4. Sir spokesman, sneers are weakness veiling rage.—GEORGE MEREDITH, A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt
   

5. Who can refute a sneer?—WILLIAM PALEY, Moral Philosophy
   

6. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
   And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.—POPE, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
   

7. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.—WOODROW WILSON