sour quotes

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

- Daisy Mary Margaret Ashford
  TheYoung Visiters, or Mr Salteena's Plan, ch.8.

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ezekiel18:2.

You gotta take the sour with the bitter.

- Sam(uel) originally  Schmuel Gelbfisz Goldwyn
Remark allegedly said to Billy Wilder when one of his films flopped. Quoted in  A Scott Berg Goldwyn (1989).

   Tout au monde est me"  le   d'amertume et de charmes: La guerre a ses douceurs, l'hymen a ses alarmes. Everything in the world is a mixture of the sweet and the sour: War has its own sweetness and marriage its alarms.

-Jean de La Fontaine
  Fables, pt.3, no.1,'Le meunier, son fils et l'a"  ne'.

Here one is in Later Life, and it's perfectly pleasant really, not for a moment that garden of cactus and sour grapes I'd always assumed it must be.

-James Ingram Merrill
  Letter to a friend at age 46.

The Red Cow was very respectable, shealways behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What. To her a thing was either black or whitethere was no question of it being grey or perhaps pink. People were good or they were badthere was nothing in between. Dandelions were either sweet or sourthere were never any moderately nice ones.

- P(amela) L(yndon) Travers
  Mary Poppins, ch.5.