A Quote by Daisy Ashford

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

Daisy Ashford

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Daisy Ashford
English - Writer
April 7, 1881 - January 15, 1972

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 am sure the grapes are sour.

Aesop

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

Frank Gehry

You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.

Paul Newman

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Zelda Fitzgerald

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

Neil Kinnock

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

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

Dorothy Parker

I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

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

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Marcus Aurelius

Each of us will taste the bitter ashes of life, from sin and neglect to sorrow and disappointment. But the atonement of Christ can lift us up in beauty from our ashes on the wings of a sure promise of immortality and eternal life. He will thus lift us up, not only at the end of life, but in each day of our lives.