Disagreeable Quotes

• Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind
  • Patience
  • Patient

• 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.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Eye

• I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Hurt
  • Person
  • Dizzy

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

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Disagree
  • Disagreeable

• Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies.

  

  Gaston Rebuffat
  • Mountain
  • Rain
  • Snow

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Understand
  • Associated
  • Disagreeable

• If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Expression
  • Amendments
  • Disagreeable

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

  

  Jane Austen
  • World
  • Man
  • Disagreeable

• Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Disagreeable
  • Amount of Time

• ...for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Man
  • Misfortune
  • Quite

• The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.

  

  Wyndham Lewis
  • Promise
  • Assuming
  • Materials

• Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Friends
  • Wise
  • Steady

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

  

  Jane Austen
  • Thing
  • Disagreeable

• My day does not truly begin until I've acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It's the Big Gulp that's important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Important
  • Bigs
  • Employee

• I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.

  

  Naomi Novik
  • Government
  • Tired
  • Insisting

• My father always told us that if we will let God, He can use even our disappointements, even our annoyances to bring us a blessing. There's a practical way to start the process too: by thanking HIm for whatever happens, no matter how disagreeable it seems.

  

  Catherine Marshall
  • Father
  • Matter
  • Blessing

• In this part of the world, the more you are pleased to see a person, the less is he pleased to see you; whereas if you are disagreeable, he will grow pleasant visibly, his countenance expanding into wider amiability the more your own is stiff and sour.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Grow
  • Disagreeable
  • Sour

• Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Democracy
  • Speak
  • Disagreeable