Disagreeable Quotes

135 Disagreeable quotes by 117 unique authors

The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some displace the ankles… — Jean-Georges Noverre
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. — Mignon McLaughlin
Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It… — Sigmund Freud
An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay — Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg — and… — John Fowles
I'm determined to disagree with people without being disagreeable. That's part of the empathy. Empathy doesn't just extend to cute little kids. You have to… — Barack Obama
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of… — George Berkeley
It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped. — William Tecumseh Sherman
In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable. — Shunryu Suzuki
People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss… — Marie-Louise von Franz
The white race is absolutely disagreeable to get along with in peace. No other people on the face of the earth have been able to… — Khalid Abdul Muhammad
A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her… — Scott Lynch
The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes… — Polly Adler
We can agree to disagree, but we don’t need to be disagreeable. — John Wooden
You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do — Judith Martin
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. — Ambrose Bierce
The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and lives throughout the… — Rudolf Steiner
It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved… — Mary Wortley Montagu
He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the… — Elihu Root
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness.… — Carl Jung
The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which… — Arthur Schopenhauer
He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a… — Jimmy Cannon
We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements. — M R DeHaan
One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable — Charles R. Swindoll
Why getting angry? Getting angry doesn’t solve anything… I don’t like yelling and fighting and I can’t quarrel, I prefer to let it drop… When… — Grace Kelly

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