Irritated Quotes

• If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Positive, Health

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.127, Shambhala Publications

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• Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Differences

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• What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Attitude, Book, Taken

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• I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.

  Haruki Murakami

  Way In Life, Upset, Training

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 13, 1982.

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• The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, White, Nba

  "Bird: NBA 'a black man's game'". www.espn.com. June 10, 2004.

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• Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

  Kin Hubbard

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Literature

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• In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.

  Robert Smith

  People, Needs, Cases

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• Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

  James Bryant Conant

  Behavior, Surface, Below The Surface

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• I get irritated when people counsel me on what I should do with my life, or tell me I should get married, or tell me what I should do. I think people have their role models for happiness and it helps if others fit into that.

  Anjelica Huston

  Thinking, People, Role Models

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Sloth, Mind, Laziness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.

  Ashley Montagu

  Girl, Boys, Irritation

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• I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Bored, Stressed, Nervous

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• This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.

  Victoria Beckham

  Hell, Wells, Persons

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• If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. -

  Epictetus

  Remember, Judgment, Incidents

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  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Hypocrisy, Fool, Prepared

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.25, BookBaby

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• When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Consistency, Problem, Speak

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• Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how - has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home - within the family, so to speak - our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Attitude, Home, Two

  "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, (p. 207), 1993.

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• There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it's a complete pain for the girls.

  Prince William

  Girl, Pain, Doe

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• As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

  Imperfection, United States, May

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• Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Book, Feelings

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.289, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

  Patrick Stewart

  Kings, Irritation, Years

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• I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

  E. M. Forster

  Thinking, People, Three

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• The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Character, Frustration, America

  Archibald MacLeish (1978). “Riders on the Earth: essays and recollections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Agency, Worry

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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