Disagreeable Quotes

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back. (Alfred de Musset)
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. View quote
Henry James
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. View quote
Samuel Richardson
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy. View quote
Vitruvius
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. View quote
William John Wills
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. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind.... Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. View quote
Brigham Young
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. (L. Frank Baum)
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. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
I love my fellow-creatures, I do all the good I can, Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man And I can't think why! View quote
W. S. Gilbert
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again. View quote
Jane Austen
If there is anything disagreeable going on, men are sure to get out of it. View quote
Jane Austen
This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax Justice of the Peace] since I have been at Home. I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable. View quote
George Mason
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. View quote
Frank Moore Colby
The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable. View quote
Dave Eggers
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. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
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. View quote
Bernard Meltzer
We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable. (Christine Gregoire)
Give us another 3 or 4 months of production, not more hampered than it is at present, and we shall have something over, with which we can make ourselves disagreeable in many ways, and many places. We could perhaps take a stronger line with Japan then, even though we still got no help from the U. S. A. ...People ask me how we are going to win this war. I suppose it is a very natural question, but I don't think the time has come to answer it. We must just go on fighting as hard as we can, in the belief that some time-perhaps sooner than we think-the other side will crack. View quote
Neville Chamberlain
The Hiss Case has turned my wife and me into old people - not a disagreeable condition. But we who used to plan in terms of decades, now find a year, two years, the utmost span of time we can take in. View quote
Whittaker Chambers
My quotations from Newton suggest the motive which induced him to take a stand against the use of hypotheses, namely, the danger of becoming involved in disagreeable controversies. ...Newton could no more dispense with hypotheses in his own cogitations than an eagle can dispense with flight. Nor did Newton succeed in avoiding controversy. View quote
Florian Cajori
We must pity those who have such singular tastes, but never insult them: their lack is a lack in nature. They are no more the masters of arriving in this world with bizarre tastes that we are the masters of arriving bowlegged or shapely. Besides, is a man saying something disagreeable to you when he reveals his desire to enjoy you? Absolutely not! He's paying you a compliment! View quote
Marquis de Sade