To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable. — Christine Gregoire Copy Share Image
Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable. — Malachy McCourt 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
“Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable?...Ah,I see; it's life without a break.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself. — Kate DiCamillo 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 is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound -… — Charles Dickens 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
Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It has always puzzled me, in my business, that people think they have to answer questions, no matter how disagreeable or dangerous,… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological.… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“She had never seen an atom and never wanted to, because the idea of mountains and people being just different arrangements of… — Pamela Moore Copy Share Image
How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable 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
Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different:… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Thus we do disagreeable things, but we are defensive. That, I think, is still fair. We do disagreeable things so that ordinary… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
I am giving them a Warning and a Guidance from God to help them to do that which will save America. And… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Once, long ago, she had caught salmon freely: now, quick to minister to the craving which lit her husband’s eye so oilily… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Trocmé was disagreeable in the same magnificent sense as Jay Freireich, and Wyatt Walker, and Fred Shuttlesworth. And the beauty of the… — Malcolm Gladwell 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
“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
I want to show the richness of even the most disagreeable bits of life. — Alfonso A. Ossorio Copy Share Image
Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable. — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
