Wince Quotes

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

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?

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.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

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.

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

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.

Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.