Troublesome Quotes

• Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Women
  • Creatures
  • Charitable

• There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Inexplicable
  • Streak
  • Diabolical

• A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

  

  Chilon of Sparta
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Troublesome

• This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Lasts
  • Ancient
  • Tales

• Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Judgment
  • Art Is
  • Troublesome

• ...the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Fortune
  • Ill
  • Musgroves

• It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].

  

  William Penn
  • Nice
  • Troublesome
  • Fastidious

• It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

  

  Plutarch
  • Pretend
  • Shameful
  • Troublesome

• It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Suffering
  • Amends

• I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome.

  

  Anthony Mary Claret
  • Particularly
  • Troublesome

• There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Wit
  • Troublesome

• Thinking about dark and troublesome things, wondering when they'll come to pay you a visit, turns out to be the very best way to call them to your side.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Dark
  • Things
  • Troublesome

• A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Fool
  • Troublesome
  • Pedant

• There has to be a song. There are too many dark nights, too many troublesome days, and too many wearisome miles. Somewhere deep in the forgotten corner of one’s heart- there has to be a song. Like a cool, clear drink of water and like the gentle warmth of sunshine, and like the tender love of a child, there has to be a song!

  

  Bob Benson
  • Love
  • Song
  • Child

• A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first.

  

  Bette Lord
  • Secret
  • Troublesome
  • Chore

• It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

  

  Plutarch
  • Produce
  • Troublesome
  • Oration

• You are strangely troublesome.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sassy
  • Troublesome

• Experience is only half of experience.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Hard
  • Act
  • Troublesome

• Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

  

  Epictetus
  • Happiness
  • Equivalent
  • Troublesome

• The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

  

  George Eliot
  • Family
  • Idiots
  • Troublesome

• Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Hard
  • Act
  • Troublesome

• To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for; This is to be a trickster; and to filch Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth, Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend, You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me, Is what, when done with a less dainty grace, Plain folks call "Theft.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Life
  • Art
  • Friend