Disagreeable Quotes - Page 6

• Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Thinking, Genius, Welcome

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• There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly to listen only to ourselves while we are carrying on a conversation with others as it is to talk to ourselves while we are alone.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Self, Listening, Carrying On

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• I am giving them a Warning and a Guidance from God to help them to do that which will save America. And I warn them that these calamities are going to increase now in severity so America might humble herself to that call of God to let the Black man and woman go. It is the time that we should separate to go free and that America should provide us with land and implements that would allow us to build a future for ourselves - for they have proved to be disagreeable to live with in peace.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Humble, Men, Land

  "Farrakhan: 'I never endorsed Mr. Trump or any of the candidates'". Interview with Richard Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. March 8, 2016.

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• Never be disagreeable just because you disagree.

  John Wooden

  Disagree

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• Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative and disagreeable - and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green. This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.

  Adam Michnik

  Color, Black, World

  "We, the Traitors". www.worldpress.org. March 28, 2003.

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• When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

  Mark Twain

  Numbers, People, Different

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 13, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Work, Simple, Years

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• 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

  Heart, Eye, Men

  Vincent van Gogh, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Van Gogh by Vincent”

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• Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

  Jean Racine

  Fruit, Second Marriage, Suspicion

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 771-72, Phèdre, II. 5, 1922.

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• Humor can help you to disagree without being disagreeable. The key in democracy is not necessarily that we agree, but that we participate....Despite all the heavy problems- domestic and international- there is humor. Humor transcends partisanship.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Humor, Keys, Democracy

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• As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Thinking, Hateful, Speak

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different: And diverse men differ not only in their judgment, on the senses of what is pleasant and unpleasant to the taste, smell, hearing, touch, and sight, but also of what is conformable, or disagreeable to Reason, in the actions of the common life. Nay, the same man, in diverse times, differs from himself, and one time praiseth, that is, calleth Good, what another time he dispraiseth, and calleth Evil.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Sight, Names

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• 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.

  George Mason

  Home, Weather, Two

  Letter to his cousin, James Mercer, February 5, 1780.

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• If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Done, Duty, Seems

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

  Gaston Rebuffat

  Rain, Sunshine, Sky

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

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Friends, Wise, Surly

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval”, p.121

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• In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Taken, Character, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

  Ann Landers

  Mind, Able, Conflict

  Ann Landers (1979). “The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”

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• John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Leisure, Legs

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 230 (31 March 1778)

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• Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than the pleasant ones. It must be that most people enjoy hearing of and reading about the troubles of others. Perhaps men unconsciously feel that they rise in the general level as others go down.

  Clarence Darrow

  Reading, Men, Space

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.80, Lulu.com

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• Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Regret, Looks, Way

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.157

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• Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Conflict, Civility, Manners

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• Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great mischief. It happens, however, very unfortunately, that almost the whole line of the great and masculine virtues--constancy, gravity, magnanimity, fortitude, fidelity, and firmness--are closely allied to this disagreeable quality, of which you have so just an abhorrence; and in their excess all these virtues very easily fall into it.

  Edmund Burke

  Fall, Political, Quality

  William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine, Jean Gabriel Peltier (1834). “Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier”, p.87

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• A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Sports, Boys

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.824, Wordsworth Editions

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• A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

  John Ruskin

  Tree, Sublime, Forests

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 3, sections 1-2 of the imaginative and theoretic faculties”, p.51

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