Irksome Quotes

32 quotes by 28 authors

Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. — Eric Hoffer
Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self… — Eric Hoffer
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. — Edward Abbey
Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a… — Roger Bannister
Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life. — Samuel Smiles
If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of… — Thomas Sowell
We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until… — Charles Spurgeon
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome — Ben Jonson
I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual… — William Borah
This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals… — Helen Keller
All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails… — Samuel Johnson
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. — Edward Carpenter
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time. — A. E. Housman
... the Apostle says, 'he that says he abides in Christ ought himself also to walk as He walked' (I Jn. 2:6). Otherwise we make… — Pope Leo I
Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries… — Learned Hand
Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! â€” ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then… — Walt Whitman
Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you. — Ovid
What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and… — Helen Keller
Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for… — Alistair Cooke

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