Disagreeable Quotes

• 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

  Keys, Relation, Business Family

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• When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Running, Pain, May

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do

  Judith Martin

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

  Winston Churchill

  Food, Years, Two

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

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• The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Courtesy, Holmes, Relation

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• I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.

  George Mason

  Wish, Cold, Sheets

  George Mason's letter to his cousin James Mercer, February 5, 1780.

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• When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

  Benjamin Spock

  Be Encouraged

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• I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Anger, Feelings, Particular

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

  W. S. Gilbert

  Love, Men, Philanthropy

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.537, Oxford University Press

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

  Aneurin Bevan

  Reading, Made, Duty

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• To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

  Barry Goldwater

  Communication, Anger, Manners

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

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• When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.

  Thucydides

  Science, Men, Logic

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• Getting angry doesn't solve anything.

  Grace Kelly

  Yelling, Solve, Angry

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• Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

  John of the Cross

  Religious, Catholic, Suffering

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• One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Maturity, Becoming, Mark

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.”, p.159, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

  Victor Hugo

  Doe, Action, Commit

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• There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Agency, Eggs

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

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• The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

  Samuel Richardson

  Mind, Filled

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

  William John Wills

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Failure, Men, Misery

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 31 (1780)

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• Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Friendship, Relationship, Courtesy

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.51, Reprint Services Corporation

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Music, Humorous, Thinking

  Quoted in The Morning Chronicle, 1816.

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• The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

  John Keats

  Art, Excellence, Literature

  Letter to George and Thomas Keats, 21 December 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 192

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

  Henry James

  Travel, Venice, Tourism

  Henry James (1995). “Italian Hours”, p.43, Penguin

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• Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Distance, Technology, Devil

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.225, University of Georgia Press

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