Quotes of Disagreeable - somelinesforyou

“ When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first. ”

- Josiah Quincy

“ Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. ”

- Henry James

“ Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. ”

- Voltaire

“ Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth. ”

- Lillian Hellman

“ When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself, if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.". ”

- Unknown

“ Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. ”

- Aneurin Bevan

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

- Jimmy Breslin

“ You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do. ”

- Judith Martin

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

- Mark Twain

“ When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable. ”

- Unknown

“ The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism. ”

- Edward Heath

“ Discipline is not a nasty word. ”

- Pat Riley

“ Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more. ”

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

“ Continuity in everything is unpleasant. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ Homely truth is unpalatable. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day. ”

- Ann Landers

“ I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others. ”

- Richard Perle

“ I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press. ”

- Paddy Ashdown

“ Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. ”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“ When I think of the number of disagreeable people that I know who have gone to a better world, I am sure hell won't be so bad at all. ”

- Mark Twain

“ A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable. ”

- Unknown

“ All feelings have their distinct tone of voice, gestures and looks; and it is this harmony, as it is good or bad, and pleasant or unpleasant, which makes people agreeable or disagreeable. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want. ”

- Irving Kristol

“ Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it. ”

- Thomas Eakins

“ I don't believe in the goodness of disagreeable people. ”

- O. Dewey

“ I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. ”

- Frank Moore Colby

“ I love my fellow creatures — I do all the good I can — yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man! ”

- W. S. Gilbert

“ If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along — whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. ”

- Bernard Meltzer
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