Disagreeable Quotes

135 Disagreeable quotes by 117 unique authors

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable. — Barry Goldwater
We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable. — Christine Gregoire
You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress… — William Hague
When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict… — Sydney J. Harris
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. — Victor Hugo
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there… — Samuel Johnson
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. — John Keats
I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable. — George Mason
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family… — Bernard Meltzer
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy… — David Ogilvy
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable. — Benjamin Spock
You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable… — William John Wills
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes… — John Irving
The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit… — Andre Gide
It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in… — Sigmund Freud
Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the… — Ambrose Bierce
This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight… — Dave Eggers
for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him. — Jane Austen
Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness,… — Tom Robbins
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it. — Jane Austen
Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself. — Kate DiCamillo
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was… — Frances Hodgson Burnett

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