There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes. Votes: 7
I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture. Votes: 6
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. Votes: 6
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. Votes: 6
The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary. Votes: 5
My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you. Votes: 5
He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat. Votes: 5
The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes. Votes: 4
From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet. Votes: 4
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. Votes: 4
I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say. Votes: 4
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. Votes: 4
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. Votes: 4
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. Votes: 4
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. Votes: 4
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. Votes: 4
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. Votes: 4
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries. Votes: 4
Dennis has not behaved well and the fact he has taken it with bad grace shows we made the right decision. It smacks of sour grapes. He said he would be happy to continue playing as long as the new manager wanted him so in no way was he misled. He said he was assured the job was his, but that is simply not true. Votes: 4
I do hear snippets on the radio. I do hear a little bit of me, sometimes great chunks of me. But I have to take that as a compliment; there's no way you can get sour grapes about that. But if somebody starts taking your whole new thing lock, stock, and barrel, and do their own version of it before you do it, that's not on. Votes: 4
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. Votes: 3
I am sure the grapes are sour. Votes: 0
I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour. Votes: 0
One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune. Votes: 0
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour. Votes: -2
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.
Apples, grapes... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day. Votes: 6 Kristin Chenoweth
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. Votes: 6 William Shakespeare