Troublesome Quotes

128 quotes by 108 authors

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable. — Anthony Trollope
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome. — Benjamin Whichcote
the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth… — Jane Austen
There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the… — C.S. Lewis
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that… — George Bernard Shaw
If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good… — Daniel Handler
Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they… — Pseudonymous Bosch
She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was… — Jeanne DuPrau
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a… — Plutarch
Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to stamp them out… — Mark Dunn
Skye kissed her forehead. "You saved my life." Katsa smiled. "You Lienid are very outward in your affection." "I'm going to name my firstborn child… — Kristin Cashore
Iâ€™ve never tried to keep a specific person alive before, and itâ€™s much more troublesome than I would have believed. But thatâ€™s probably just because… — Stephenie Meyer
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots. — George Eliot
There are no fools so troublesome as those of the mind — Arthur Conan Doyle
His sympathy made tears spring to Lina's eyes. Doon looked startled for a moment, and then he took a step toward her and wrapped his… — Jeanne DuPrau
What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the… — Mark Twain
1.Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2.Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3.Never spend your money before you… — Thomas Jefferson
Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows… — Terry Pratchett
The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in… — Carl Sagan

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