A Quote by Aesop

I am sure the grapes are sour.

Aesop

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Am Grapes Sour Sure

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Aesop
Greek - Author
620 BC - 564 BC

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

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

Frank Gehry

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

Daisy Ashford

One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.

Mason Cooley

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

Neil Kinnock

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

Aesop

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

Neil Kinnock

Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

Dorothy Parker

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

From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

Rumi

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

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Frederic Raphael

Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.

Sarah Addison Allen

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.