(14 quotes found)
“Then suddenly out of the gloom came a sharp hiss. 'What has it got in its pocketses?'”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.”
Victor Hugo
“He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber”
Samuel Johnson
“And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.”
Bible
“I heard some hisses. Au contraire. I think it's the best browser on the platform.”
Steve Jobs
“Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.”
William Orville Douglas
“All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? / All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.”
“He will not be jeered. He will not be hissed. People will say good job, but we can't have you supporting our Supreme Court.”
Chuck Hurley
“Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.”
