Disagreeable Quotes

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.

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

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

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

Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share.

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

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

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

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

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 stress that balance.

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

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.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

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.

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

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

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.