Disagreeable Quotes

Disagreeable Quote of the day

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.

When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or mathematical reasonings.

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.

One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable

There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

We can agree to disagree, but we don’t need to be disagreeable.

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements.

People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

If we must disagree, let's disagree without being disagreeable.

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable.

It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.

Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.

Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up