One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things. — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I don't make myself disagreeable; it is you who find me so. Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not… — George Eliot 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
“even if there is a ghost it cannot possibly be more disagreeable to live with than your grandfather” — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I'm very aware that people find my wife and I's marriage disagreeable. But all I have to do is look at my… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
The conversation of those who like to lord it over us is very disagreeable. But we should always be ready to graciously… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
If I have my opinion about something, you have your opinion about something, we don't have to fight over it. And we… — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“innovators need to be disagreeable. By disagreeable, I don’t mean obnoxious or unpleasant. I mean that on that fifth dimension of the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a… — Oliver Wendall Holmes Copy Share Image
It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Something hurtful to my pride, disagreeable, rose at the sight of these lower forms of life. Their existence struck a servile reflection… — T.E. Lawrence 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
The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine… — Polly Adler Copy Share Image
You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly… — Brigham Young 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
“We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another, which disputatious turn, by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes intense desire.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
