Malcontent Quotes

Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents.

I’m perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting malcontents passed on.

We have so many choices that it’s only always our fault if we’re malcontent.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.

Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

Countless people…will hate the New World Order…and will die protesting against it…we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I’m a malcontent and you can’t change that.

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.

This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

The capacity for “uncontaminated wonder,” ultimately, is what distinguishes the successful from the ordinary, the happily engaged players of whatever era from the chronically disappointed and malcontent. Therein lies a lesson for geeks, geezers, and the sea of people who fall in between.