Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“You can die trying to get along with a disagreeable man,” she said, and I put a star beside it when I… — Debby Bull Copy Share Image
Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things. — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin. — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
There are a lot of true culturalists who respect where they're from, but you have some who are just all about the… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In the course of the world, a man must very often put on an easy, frank countenance, upon very disagreeable occasions; he… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
