Disagreeable Quotes
135 quotes by 118 authors
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
— Aneurin Bevan
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had…
— Winston Churchill
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or…
— Leonard Cohen
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I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or…
— Hiram Maxim
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One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people of rank. It…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
— Zig Ziglar
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When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
— James Boswell
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
— Samuel Johnson
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Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
— John of the Cross
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Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they…
— Frederic Bastiat
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... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by…
— Hans Zinsser
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First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of…
— Laurence Sterne
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Though we disagree, we should not be disagreeable.
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that…
— William S. Burroughs
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It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because…
— William J. Brennan
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I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
— W. S. Gilbert
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