Nuisance Quotes
90 quotes by 82 authors
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You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
— Rudyard Kipling
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When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons…
— Sarah Vowell
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I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?
— Colleen McCullough
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There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we…
— Bertrand Russell
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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This skin is a nuisance. This skin that separates you and me...it is a nuisance.
— Yun Kouga
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There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two…
— Neil Gaiman
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Horace, when you get older, try to avoid being saddled with an apprentice. Not only are they a damned nuisance, but apparently they constantly feel…
— John Flanagan
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Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they…
— Lauren Willig
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute…
— Oscar Wilde
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Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are…
— Terry Pratchett
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers,…
— Steven Pinker
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The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.
— Katharine Lee Bates
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
— Yolanda Adams
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Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.
— David Low
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A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.
— Daniel H. Hill
Who Wrote These Nuisance Quotes
82 authors contributed a total of 90 Nuisance Quotes, led by these top contributors: