Disagreeable Quote by Margaret Oliphant Download Open image “One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.” — Margaret Oliphant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disagreeable Duty Responsibility
If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
If people disagree with me and want to articulate it, that's not only their right but almost their obligation. — David Cross Copy Share Image
“Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience. — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
“Don’t you think a certain amount of civilisation is necessary before picture-frames will become remunerative? I don’t think you could live by them in… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
“The village lay in the hollow, and climbed, with very prosaic houses, the other side. Village architecture does not flourish in Scotland. The blue… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
“And there has been no attempt to investigate it,' I said, 'to see what it really is?' 'Eh, Cornel,' said the coachman's wife, 'wha… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax… — George Mason Copy Share Image
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I have a vocabulary all my own. I pass the time when itis wet and disagreeable. Whenit is fine I do not wish to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man! — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable;… — Alec Douglas-Home Copy Share Image
I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right… — Henry Ossawa Tanner Copy Share Image
Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable. — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
In God's name, Monsieur, let us remain indifferent; let us strive to be equally attached to whatever obedience marks out for us, be it… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
