There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Being short and seeing a promoter take the stock up is very irritating. It's not worth it to have that much irritation… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“To some extent, it is almost blasphemous to think that insult, anger and irritation could be a positive force.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness. — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
“It was a constant source of irritation to him that the public men on his side were, on the whole, not conspicuously… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation. — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
You went to all that trouble just for my body?" I said, amazed and so grateful. Reyn looked up, irritation on his… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“She sounded angry. That was the way she'd been as long as he'd known her. If she became ill, it irritated her.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others don't (as… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation -… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Love is friendship that has caught fire. ... Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
It struck me that the popularity of Christmas is a matter of web-like consciousness. Childhood conditions us to relax and expand at… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
…feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Microplastics will cause us so many problems, that wars will just seem like a small irritation.” — Anthony T. Hincks Copy Share Image
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. — Horace Copy Share Image
“the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Is there a point to your latest irritation, Kish? (Sin) Had a sudden death wish. Felt the deep need to come up… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
One scientist had discussions about love and compassion. Usually, he felt irritation. After our meeting, for some months, anger never come. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation. — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion… — Charles Buxton Copy Share Image
“Philippa Somerville, standing back a little, did not withdraw her arm. In her white face, a shadow of motherly irritation appeared. ‘Has… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
My diet, my regime, the whole life I have on the road has always got that little bit of stress because I'm… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that the real irritation of those on the religious right is not that their particular creed is not… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
[On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way… — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image