| And the loveable curmudgeon is responsible for most of literature's best quotations, maxims and aphorisms. |
| In truth, he often proved an irascible, frustrating curmudgeon at the tribunal but people loved him for it. |
| At times Bifo seems a cranky old curmudgeon madly shaking his fist at the present. |
| In making these assertions, I am not being a curmudgeon, a whiner or a spoilsport. |
| Call me a crotchety curmudgeon, but I started on this book with two mental blocks. |
| One can see that his colleagues must have regarded him as a cross-grained old curmudgeon. |
