Wince Quotes

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The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

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

Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.

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.

When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

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?

There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

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

I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.

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.

Mess with my weed again and I’ll be informing Daddy that there was an early casualty on the mission.” I saw him wince at my designation for Mircea and grinned.

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

People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.