In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable. — Winston Churchill 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
“The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“He scooped me up and suddenly I was pressed against his chest. “Were you worried about me?” "No, I’m ranting for fun,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it… — Bernard Meltzer 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
When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Humor can help you to disagree without being disagreeable. The key in democracy is not necessarily that we agree, but that we… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“Nonsense, child! Nature never makes a ferret in the shape of a mastiff. You’ll never persuade me that I can’t tell what… — George Eliot 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
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living… — William Hazlitt 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
An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay — Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Adolescents may be, almost simultaneously, overconfident and riddled with fear. They are afraid of their overpowering feelings, oflosing control, of helplessness, of… — Stella Chess 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
[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one. — Florence Nightingale 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
When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. — Criss Jami 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
If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
“Catherine- "How I hate the sight of an umbrella!" Mrs. Allen- "They are disagreeable things to carry. I would much rather take… — Jane Austen 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
“Peace in this life springs from acquiescence even in disagreeable things, not in an exemption from bearing them. FRANÇOIS DE LA MOTHE… — Mary W. Tileston Copy Share Image
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and offtimes disagreeable. I suppose I am larger than life.” — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the… — Patrick Rothfuss 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
I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
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