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Wince Quotes

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

Pete Waterman
People, Honest, Wince

I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

Roy Blount, Jr.
Thinking, Arbitrary, Wince

Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon.

Frank Portman
Life Is, Reason, Wince

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

Sydney J. Harris
Teacher, May, Wince
Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.

W. E. B. Du Bois
Wince
W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.80, Oxford University Press

Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

Katharine Tynan
People, Tricks, Wince
Katharine Tynan (1913). “Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences”

Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.

William Shakespeare
Jade, Wince
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [255]

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

Luke Ford
Way, Opinion, Wince

I wince at her use of the word "human." I've never liked that differentiation. She is living and I'm dead, but we're both human. Call me an idealist.

Isaac Marion
Use, Differentiation, Wince
Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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