Irritating Quotes

• Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

  Marian Anderson

  Hate, Hair, Prejudice

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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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• After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Happiness, Real, Personality

  Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston (2010). “The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill”, p.273, University of Illinois Press

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• Stop waiting for others to change. Recognize that every person has the right to be whatever they choose-even if you irritate yourself about it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Change, Being Yourself, Acceptance

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

  Robert Smith

  People, Needs, Irritated

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

  Kin Hubbard

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Literature

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• You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Love, Inspirational, Philosophy

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• I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Talent, Fourteen

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.128, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

  Madame Roland

  Mind, Amusement, Killing

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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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• May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.

  Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

  Failure, Eye, Science

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• The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Kindness, Condolences, Opportunity

  Patricia Wentworth (1992). “The Ivory Dagger”, Perennial

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• Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the reason the wise guru will not attempt to wake people up. I hope I'm going to be wise here and make no attempt whatsoever to wake you up if you are asleep. It is really none of my business, even though I say to you at times, "Wake up!" My business is to do my thing, to dance my dance. If you profit from it fine; if you don't, too bad! As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens."

  Anthony de Mello

  Wise, Nice, Rain

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.6, Image

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• The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: "I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love." But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

  Warren Buffett

  Writing, Love Is, Thinking

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• There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

  Robert Powell

  Simple, Alive, Reason

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• If you read many contemporary literary novels today, you may notice that regardless of the subject matter there's a 'sameness' about them, the way in which thoughts are expressed and ideas, conveyed, the sometimes dogmatic application of what are, at best, useful maxims such as, 'less is more', the narrative techniques utilised, even the same, irritating, stylistic devices scattered like pepper all over the pages.

  Suhayl Saadi

  Ideas, Technique, May

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• James Delaney as an individual is sort of like a grain of sand in an oyster who is irritating all of them. But for me he's a creature of the time, like the industrialists who started the Industrial Revolution who extricated themselves from their class and their background

  Steven Knight

  Oysters, Class, Revolution

  Source: deadline.com

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• Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive presence. I figure them differently.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Crow, Figures, Walks

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.

  Amanda Palmer

  Sound, Looks, Fats

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• David's [Cunningham] a very interesting character. He has more integrity than is good for him. So, everything he did after that sort of undermined what he'd done. Other people who kind of took life more cheaply, would have really gone for it. David almost did everything he could to scupper the whole thing, which I very much admire, but of course it was deeply irritating then, because we wanted to make a bit of money! So we made this very catchy tune and then he added a bunch of weird stuff which was all very strange.

  David Toop

  Integrity, Character, Interesting

  Source: thequietus.com

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• ‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.

  David Benioff

  Greatness, Two, World

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.78, Penguin

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• There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Government, Eyebrows, People

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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

  Irritated, Remember, Judgment

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