sneer quotes

He cultivated to perfection the sneer which he used like an oyster-knife, inserting it into the shell of his victim, exposing him with a quick-turn of the wrist, and finally flipping him over and inviting his audience to discard him as tainted and inedible.

- Noe«  l Gilroy, Baron Annan
  On the critic F R Leavis. English Intellectuals Between the World Wars.

Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.

-Rochdale
^18  Of Edward Gibbon. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, stanza107.

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

- Alexander Pope
  Of Addison.'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot', l.201^4.