Surliness Quotes

Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past-the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace. (Margaret Atwood)
Immorality and surliness makes the human's life miserable and bitter. View quote
Ja'far al-Sadiq
But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but they wish them ill also: they would like to eat them up, and absorb their vitality, and remain immortal themselves. Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past - the past of others, loaded on their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I have always disliked the sea, its surliness, its menace, its vast reaches and unknowable, shudder-inducing depths. View quote
John Banville