Disagreeable Quotes

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do

It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.

It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

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

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.

It's hard to hate up close. The more you get to know each other, the more common ground you can find and the more you can disagree without being disagreeable.

That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

November is usually such a disagreeable month as if the year had suddenly found out she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it.

Though we disagree, we should not be disagreeable.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.

Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.

Never be disagreeable just because you disagree.

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I'm disagreeable.

One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people of rank. It is disagreeable to listen to.

Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me.

The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.

Though, if you think about it, hostile, dethroned pseudodeities probably make disagreeable neighbors. You'll have to figure out something to do with him.

The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable.

This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book. The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

The conversation of those who like to lord it over us is very disagreeable. But we should always be ready to graciously acknowledge the truth, no matter in what guise it comes to us.