Top Wry Quotes

What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing

He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a lack of affluence that might, literally, affect my purchase of rare vintages, and a...

Wry Definition

(v. t.) To cover.

(superl.) Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth.

(superl.) Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words.

(superl.) Wrested; perverted.

(v. i.) To twist; to writhe; to bend or wind.

(v. i.) To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to turn side; to swerve.

(a.) To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex.

The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses

His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.