Mark Foster

Culturally, it's really funny to me that people respect the weird guy as an artist. There can be a curmudgeon in the corner with spiders building nests in his hair, and he hasn't bathed for three weeks, but for whatever reason, he's more creative than the guy sitting next to him that's showered and is talking to everybody.

American Musician

Pat Conroy

I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.

American Writer

Tom Segura

I don't like big events and crowded areas. I'm almost a curmudgeonly old man in that aspect. I've been like that forever.

American Comedian

James Garner

People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

American Activist

Julia Glass

I continue to shun, in a very curmudgeonly fashion, things like Twitter and Facebook.

American Novelist

Thomas Middleditch

I'm a bit of a curmudgeon. I don't like Valentine's Day and New Year's and Halloween.

Canadian Actor

Stacy Keach

This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no doubt about it.

American Actor

V. S. Naipaul

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

Trinidadian Novelist

John Cho

I am a little curmudgeonly about new media.

Jonathan Frid

The term 'curmudgeon' has a negative tone and suggests unpleasant behavior.

Negative Connotation

Often used to describe older people, implying stubbornness or a set-in-their-ways attitude.

Older Characters

'Curmudgeon' can be used humorously or affectionately for someone who's only occasionally grumpy.

Not Always Literal

 chaired by the seemingly very curmudgeonly John Pastore. And Mister Rogers is there to make a kind of classic debate case, a really bold an increase in federal funding for public broadcasting. And at the outset,