Insufferable Quotes

• Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Encounters, Faults, Shortcomings

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• The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Real, Cat, Air

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Victory, Retreat

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

  Hirohito

  Military, Suffering, Unendurable

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• A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gratitude, Men, Two

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• No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Rudeness, Courtesy, Courtesy Manners

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• Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Heart, Sadness

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

  Glenn Frey

  Dad, Useless, Matter

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• The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Nature, Thinking, Men

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• I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

  Max Beerbohm

  Boys, Oxford, Max

  More (1899) "Going Back to School"

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• The word 'conservative' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.

  Norman Tebbit

  Home, Sunset, Views

  The Independent, February 24, 1990.

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• Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

  John Masefield

  Men, Generosity, May

  John Masefield (1941). “Dead Ned and Live and Kicking Ned”

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• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Trying, Vitamins, Boring

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• Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Christian, Soul, Atheism

  "A Writer's Notebook". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1949.

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• Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, People, Risk

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• Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

  Blaise Pascal

  Struggle, Men, Anxiety

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.66, Open Road Media

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• What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, People, Wounds

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• The leader’s Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Leader, Atmosphere

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization”, p.164, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

  Robin Morgan

  Freedom, Agony, White

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• Indomitable in victory, insufferable in defeat.

  Woody Hayes

  Victory, Defeat, Indomitable

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• The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn't want to live in the perfect place, either. "A life time of happiness! No man could bear it: It would be hell on earth," wrote George Bernard Shaw, in his play Man and Superman.

  Eric Weiner

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• When you're "East Coast" person, you are so insufferable, and you have no idea. And I was. One, because I was miserable, and nobody liked to be around a miserable person, and two, everything that I thought was so profound, everyone had already dealt with.

  Mindy Kaling

  Ideas, Two, Profound

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 4, 2007.

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• From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Views, Conceit, Point Of View

  "The Past Through Tomorrow" by Robert A. Heinlein, G. P. Putnam Inc., (p. 431), 1967.

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• Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

  Joseph Addison

  Silly, Opportunity, Men

  Joseph Addison (2010). “Addison's Essays”, p.133, Wildside Press LLC

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