Disagreeable Quotes

135 Disagreeable quotes by 117 unique authors

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios… — Rebecca West
My father always told us that if we will let God, He can use even our disappointements, even our annoyances to bring us a blessing.… — Catherine Marshall
I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does… — Naomi Novik
Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies. — Patrick Rothfuss
Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or… — John Wesley
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again. — Jane Austen
Though, if you think about it, hostile, dethroned pseudodeities probably make disagreeable neighbors. You'll have to figure out something to do with him. — Brandon Sanderson
Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the… — David Hume
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life. — Bette Davis
It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes… — Abigail Adams
November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden.… — Louisa May Alcott
Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and… — Rebecca West
So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn’t it? Wait a… — Jean-Paul Sartre
People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin. — Anne Perry
I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. — Frank Moore Colby
It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world… — M.F.K. Fisher
One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James
To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but… — Aristotle
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the… — Thucydides
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others. — William Hazlitt
I want to show the richness of even the most disagreeable bits of life. — Alfonso A. Ossorio
I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have… — Jane Welsh Carlyle
We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far. — Greg Boyle
Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable. — Robert Gottlieb

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