Annoyance Quote by Plutarch

“What--has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted?" demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm. "Men have died for less than that, ancient one," E-Thas reminded him.…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Treat me, O Alexander, as befits a king!’ replied Paurus as he stood in chains before his subjugator, defeated but not dispirited, wounded but…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“how small he was and how wormy in manner,”

— James A. Michener

“I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much, He is a great observer, and…

— William Shakespeare

A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said…

— Plutarch

“Lord Fellmotte was not a man. He was an ancient committee. A parliament of deathly rooks in a dying tree.”

— Frances Hardinge

“Where he (Alexander) came the inhabitants either accepted him with roses and wine, or fought and were beaten. He preferred the latter.”

— William Bolitho

“Doesn’t it follow that a ship’s captain or ruler won’t seek and order what is advantageous to himself, but what is advantageous to a…

— Plato

“Teleus, who had faced his failures and his death and the death of his friend and accepted his own salvation at the hand of…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To…

— William Shakespeare

“But there was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the…

— Malcolm Lowry

“Good; and what of him? ALEXANDER They say he is a very man per se, And stands alone. CRESSIDA So do all men, unless…

— William Shakespeare