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

  Kin Hubbard

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Literature

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I find you irritating. (Kat) I haven’t even begun to irritate you yet. Imagine what I could do if I applied myself? (Solin) I can imagine. I can also imagine ripping your throat out and tying my shoes with your larynx. (Kat)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Shoes, Imagine, Throat

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• You're awfully small to be so hugely irritating.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Breaking Dawn

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

  Ken Livingstone

  Voice, Sound, Prime

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• People are basically irritating. Myself included.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.205, Macmillan

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• You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Way, Ends, Wells

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• I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Atheist, House, I Can

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• Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.

  Cheryl James

  Girl, Rap, Voice

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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 reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn't see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him or her off. It takes hindsight to recognize that the very situation you may have seen as an irritating bother turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Wouldn't life be a much more enjoyable and meaningful experience if we decided to look at the difficult people and irritating situations as blessings in disguise? If we look deeply enough, we might see how these experiences as situations that motivate us to grow and change for the better.

  John Templeton

  Meaningful, Adversity, Blessing

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• If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fear, People, Doe

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