Disagreeable Quotes

135 quotes by 118 authors

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. — Aneurin Bevan
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce
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
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
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
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
You can disagree without being disagreeable. — Zig Ziglar
When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations. — James Boswell
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
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. — Samuel Johnson
Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent. — John of the Cross
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
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
... [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
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
Though we disagree, we should not be disagreeable. — Dallin H. Oaks
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
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
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
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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