"We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely……" — C.S. Lewis
"We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
— Pietro Aretino
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People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me.
— John Bonham
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It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make…
— Jo Brand
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
— Fred Allen
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The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly…
— E. W. Howe
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The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.
— Stephen Sondheim
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I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the…
— Adolf Hitler
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Get out into the sunlight-out where everything is-with a vibration that is so dominant that those who annoy you, those…
— Esther Hicks
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I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they…
— Robert Southey
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If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
— Kingsley Amis
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What, more petitions! Won't you be, and stay, intimidated? You must really annoy Sen. Dodd. Here it is [my signature],…
— Edward Condon
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Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.
— Josh James
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