Impatience is not a virtue, but an annoyance

Impatience is a virtue.

— Ursula Burns

“Impatience may be a virtue if you have to write for today's generation.”

— Haresh Sippy

I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't…

— C. S. Lewis

Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first day they…

— Baltasar Gracian

Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold…

— Karl Kraus

I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.

— Demi Moore

“...the presence of others has become even more intolerable to me, their conversation most of all. Oh, how it all annoys and exasperates me:…

— Jean Lorrain

By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to…

— Wayne Dyer

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

— Franz Grillparzer

If we will only surrender ourselves utterly to the Lord, and will trust Him perfectly, we shall find our souls "mounting up with wings…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself…

— Herbert Spencer

“Dredging up some semblance of annoyance, Celaena stuck out her tongue. At the guards, at the market, at the hawk on the nearby chimney,…

— Sarah J. Maas

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

— Mark Twain

“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." Isaac Asimov”

— Rohi Shetty

“See? Injustice. Here we are, risking our lives to rescue Kai and this whole planet, and Adri and Pearl get to go to the…

— Marissa Meyer