A Quote by Zelda Fitzgerald

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

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Zelda Fitzgerald
American - Novelist
July 24, 1900 - March 10, 1948

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

Daisy Ashford

I'm boiling about the rainforests being chopped down to make disposable chopsticks. I'm boiling about the fact that we have palm oil put into every single one of our substances.

Joanna Lumley

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

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

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

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Oil's in everything we have, from anesthetics to aspirations to aspirins to most parts of the cell phone contain oil. We interface with oil in every part of our life.

Johnny Colt

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

Frank Black

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 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

As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix.

Alex Shoumatoff

There is this school of thought that says the usage of all mystical and occult powers is bad. I find that thought is usually propounded by people who don't have any powers. It's kind of a sour grapes attitude.

Frederick Lenz

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