Irritable Quotes

58 quotes by 55 authors

I went along doing the one-salad-a-night routine for a year. And I remember feeling so tired and depressed and irritable. I had no personal life.… — Carol Alt
Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication. — John Mortimer
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable. — Robert Motherwell
All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to… — Philip Guston
I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don't have time for them. I can't make phone calls and stuff. I just sit… — Simon Cowell
All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable. — Salman Rushdie
When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all… — Ben Stein
Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be… — Bess Streeter Aldrich
She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence â€“ â€œSurely,… — Jane Austen
If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of perfect… — Susan J. Douglas
it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative… — John Keats
As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable. — Doris Lessing
The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and… — William Lyon Phelps
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Does no one think to warn people before they meet me?" Vlad muttered, shooting an irritable look at Mencheres. — Jeaniene Frost
Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who… — Jim Butcher
I'll tell you what's wrong!" he roared, "I'm trying to quit smoking!" Then he strode angrily to the truck, leaving her standing there. She blinked… — Linda Howard
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet… — Washington Irving
Keep up," said an irritable voice in her ear. It was Jace, who had dropped back to walk beside her. "I don't want to have… — Cassandra Clare
I spent two hours trying to question reapers without sounding like I was questioning them. What do you think it says about us as a… — Rachel Vincent

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