Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as… — George Mason Copy Share Image
What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I have a vocabulary all my own. I pass the time when itis wet and disagreeable. Whenit is fine I do not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man! — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet… — Alec Douglas-Home Copy Share Image
I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had… — Henry Ossawa Tanner Copy Share Image
Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable. — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
In God's name, Monsieur, let us remain indifferent; let us strive to be equally attached to whatever obedience marks out for us,… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few… — William John Wills Copy Share Image
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
She walked quickly around her one-room apartment. After more than four years in this one home she knew all its possibilities, how… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
It is always disagreeable to take stands. It is always easier to compromise, always easier to let things go. To many women,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Though, if you think about it, hostile, dethroned pseudodeities probably make disagreeable neighbors. You'll have to figure out something to do with… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The man was handsome, and he taught English in the same department as me--- and the second he showed up at my… — Ashley Poston Copy Share Image
It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
