Quotes with disagreeable

  • I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

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  • Lord Chesterfield The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Leonard Cohen 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. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Samuel Johnson Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes 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.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Frank Moore Colby I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • William S. Gilbert I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Bernard Meltzer 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.
    Bernard Meltzer
    American professor (1916 - 1998)
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  • Samuel Johnson Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Augustine Birrell Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
    Augustine Birrell
    British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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  • John Keats The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Wyndham Lewis 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
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Abraham Tucker The point of aim for our vigilance to hold in view is to dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect, to call off the thoughts when running upon disagreeable objects, and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances surrounding us.
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  • Henry James Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris 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.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • J. Martin Kohe 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.
    J. Martin Kohe
    American self-help author
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  • Ambrose Bierce Telephone. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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