In the U.K., if guests don’t have a good meal they often won’t complain, but you can guarantee you won’t see them again. Americans are far more likely to voice their complaints.
Complain - Complaint Quotes
It’s the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
The more you complain, the longer God lets you live.
Complain to one who can help you.
Though Mr. (Samuel) Johnson was commonly affected even to agony at the thoughts of a friend’s dying, he troubled himself very little with the complaints they might make to him of ill health. “Dear Doctor (said he one day to a common acquaintance, who lamented the tender state of his inside), do not be like […]
We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.
Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well. (King Lear)
Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest. (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
