Disagreeable Quotes - Page 9

• A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Light, Clothes

  "Reflections on Various Subjects". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, www.gutenberg.org. 1678.

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• In the course of the world, a man must very often put on an easy, frank countenance, upon very disagreeable occasions; he must seem pleased, when he is very much otherwise; he must be able to accost and receive with smiles, those whom he would much rather meet with swords.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Patience, Men, Tolerance

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.298, OUP Oxford

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• She walked quickly around her one-room apartment. After more than four years in this one home she knew all its possibilities, how it could put on a sham appearance of warmth and welcome when she needed a place to hide in, how it stood over her in the night when she woke suddenly, how it could relax itself into a disagreeable unmade, badly-put-together state, mornings like this, anxious to drive her out and go back to sleep.

  Shirley Jackson

  Morning, Women, Home

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.106, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Thinking, People, May

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.351, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original Mind and are tormented all the time by the threatening objective world, regarding it as good or bad, true or false, agreeable or disagreeable. We are thus slaves of things and circumstances.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Running, Time, Past

  D.T. Suzuki (2014). “Manual of Zen Buddhism”, p.68, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank leaf in our book of life. Painful and disagreeable ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any subject.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Disappointment, Book, Ideas

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• Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable.

  Alec Douglas-Home

  Passion, Vanity, Excess

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• None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.

  James Goldsmith

  Life, Strong, Regret

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• Rather than becoming more relaxed, you start pulling down the shades and locking the door. When you do go out, you find the experience more and more unsettling and disagreeable. You become touchier, more fearful, more irritable than ever. The more you try to get it your way, the less you feel at home.

  Pema Chodron

  Peace, Home, Doors

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• 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, Doe, Coke

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

  James Buchanan

  Government, President, Patronage

  James Buchanan (2000). “Mr. Buchanan's Administration: On the Eve of the Rebellion”, p.252, Digital Scanning Inc

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• When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

  Richard Steele

  Music, Men, Sound

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers (1822). “The Tatler”, p.376

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• Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

  Abigail Adams

  Dark, Men, Soul

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.214

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• There are a lot of true culturalists who respect where they're from, but you have some who are just all about the benjamins, like, "I wanna get my money, I wanna get mine, you get yours, more power to you," and they don't care. That deals with the whole thing of life, whether you're agreeable or disagreeable, the yin and the yang, the evil versus good. That's how it is in the music industry. There are people who care for the whole culture and what they're doing, and have love for it, and are not into just making money.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  People, Evil, Culture

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

  Ovid

  Desire, Causes, Intense

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• For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

  Plato

  Love, Children, Plato

  Plato (2005). “The Republic”, p.20, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Men, Political, President

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.204, Open Road Media

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• I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

  Susie Orbach

  Kitchen, Wish, Needs

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• November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Years, Months, November

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Women Collection: Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins and More”, p.160, Xist Publishing

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• In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Paper, Ontology, Able

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• The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable.

  Dave Eggers

  Pain, Symbolism

  Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.50, Vintage

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• There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved, by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Doe, Answers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.246, Рипол Классик

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