Nuisance Quotes

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. (Dorothy L. Sayers)
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. View quote
E. M. Forster
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you. View quote
Gustav Holst
I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. View quote
Edith Sitwell
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. View quote
Havelock Ellis
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure. View quote
Augustus
Some French socialist said that private property was theft ... I say that private property is a nuisance. View quote
Paul Erdős
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Systems, scientific and philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. View quote
Margaret Atwood
We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance. (Ingrid Newkirk)
A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working. View quote
James Van Allen
At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance. View quote
Tom Holt
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. View quote
Plautus
Being covered in white paint,you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance,which did in fact cause offence to members of the public,and created a breach of the peace and public order. View quote
Günter Brus
There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent. View quote
Daniel Harvey Hill
I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
We don't have to be convincing-not in the sense of getting converts. Real converts might prove to be a nuisance. We just have to be convincing enough to look like a legitimate religion to our overlords. And that doesn't have to be very convincing. All religions look equally silly from the outside. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard. View quote
George Sutherland
As to us here our thoughts of every thing at home are suspended, by our astonishment at the wonderful Spectacle which is exhibited in a Neighbouring and rival Country-what Spectators, and what actors! England gazing with astonishment at a French struggle for Liberty and not knowing whether to blame or to applaud! The thing indeed, though I thought I saw something like it in progress for several years, has still something in it paradoxical and Mysterious. The spirit it is impossible not to admire; but the old Parisian ferocity has broken out in a shocking manner. It is true, that this may be no more than a sudden explosion... But if it should be character rather than accident, then that people are not fit for Liberty, and must have a Strong hand like that of their former masters to coerce them. Men must have a certain fund of natural moderation to qualifye them for Freedom, else it becomes noxious to themselves and a perfect Nuisance to every body else. View quote
Edmund Burke
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance. (Margery Allingham)
Enough of this intolerable inanity! I propose that such loquacity passes beyond the scope of the nuisance and over the verge of turpitude. View quote
Jack Vance
I soon made myself a nuisance by asking far too many questions of everybody. Every happening in the neighborhood, no matter how trivial, became my business. View quote
Richard Wright
A girl can't control who will and who won't fall in love with her, Ethan. And sometimes, when a nuisance person falls in love with you, it can be awfully... awkward. View quote
Douglas Coupland
You will have seen that my brother died suddenly in Marseilles. I inherit from him a title, but not a penny of money, as he was bankrupt. A title is a great nuisance to me, and I am at a loss what to do, but at any rate I do not wish it employed in connection with any of my literary work. There is, so far as I know, only one method of getting rid of it, which is to be attainted of high treason, and this would involve my head being cut off on Tower Hill. This method seems to me perhaps somewhat extreme... View quote
Bertrand Russell