Unfriendly Quotes

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.