Exasperation Quotes

• I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Average, Annoyed, States

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• Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Suffering

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.17, 谷月社

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• Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

  Barber Conable

  Decision, Exhaustion

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• We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

  Noel Coward

  Death, Suicide, Guarantees That

  Noel Coward (1965). “Three plays by Noel Coward: Blithe spirit, Hay fever [and] Private lives”

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• It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did.

  Diane Arbus

  Fall, Garden, Eden

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Live Life, Men, Quiet

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.

  C. L. R. James

  War, Government, World

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• Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.

  William Archibald Spooner

  Liars, Lying, Fighting

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• It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

  Norman Cousins

  Depression, Hate, Frustration

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• I turned to Annabeth and shook my head in exasperation. “Always Hercules. What is it with Hercules?” Annabeth shrugged. “He had a great publicist.

  Rick Riordan

  Annabeth, Publicists

  "The Demigod Diaries (The Heroes of Olympus)". Book by Rick Riordan, August 14, 2012.

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• If you are going to do something that will annoy people, tell them about it afterwards; then they will only be annoyed that you have done it, and won't have all the exasperation of trying to stop you.

  Dorothy Cottrell

  People, Annoyed, Trying

  Dorothy Cottrell (1929). “The Singing Gold”

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• The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.

  John Hall Wheelock

  Jobs, Publishing House, Editors

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• We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.

  Jeff Cooper

  Hurt, Views, Circles

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• He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

  Stephen Leacock

  Horse, Rooms, Economy

  Nonsense Novels "Gertrude the Governess; or, Simple Seventeen" (1911)

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• Oh, for heaven's sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It's no wonder I haven't been able to keep my hands off the blasted man since the day I met him. He's an artifact! A Celtic one at that!

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Hands, Heaven

  Karen Marie Moning (2002). “The Dark Highlander”, p.234, Dell

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• Zoë threw up her hands in exasperation. "I hate this language. It changes too often!

  Rick Riordan

  Hate, Hands, Language

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• I think Donald Trump now thinks it`s time for Jeff Sessions to resign. There was a reporting that suggested that when Trump first voiced his exasperation with Sessions, that Sessions made it clear to Trump that if Trump wanted his resignation, he would offer it. It seems to me now Trump is sending a pretty clear signal that what he wants is Jeff Sessions to resign, and it`s also pretty clear to me he`s now at war with everyone in the world of justice and law enforcement in the administration.

  John Heilemann

  War, Thinking, Justice

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• Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Beautiful, Attractive, Torture

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels, 1969-1974”

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• You…made…me…faint,” I accused him dizzily. “What am I going to do with you?” he groaned in exasperation. “Yesterday I kiss you, and you attack me! Today you pass out on me!” I laughed weakly, letting his arms support me while my head spun. “So much for being good at everything,” he sighed. “That's the problem.” I was still dizzy. “You're too good. Far, far too good.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Kissing, Yesterday, Support

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.212, Hachette UK

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• I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

  Mark Twain

  Hatred, House, Enthusiasm

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• Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors -- is almost as old as recorded history. It has always been a great temptation, for men of action no less than for men of thought, to find a substitute for action in the hope that the realm of human affairs may escape the haphazardness and moral irresponsibility inherent in a plurality of agents.

  Hannah Arendt

  Frustration, Men, Temptation

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• While Leo fussed over his helm controls, Hazel and Frank relayed the story of the fish-centaurs and their training camp. 'Incredible,' Jason said. 'These are really good brownies.' 'That's your only comment?' Piper demanded. He looked surprised. 'What? I heard the story. Fish-centaurs. Merpeople. Letter of intro to the Tiber River god. Got it. But these brownies--' 'I know,' Frank said, his mouth full. 'Try them with Ester's peach preserves.' 'That,' Hazel said, 'is incredibly disgusting.' 'Pass me the jar, man,' Jason said. Hazel and Piper exchanged a look of total exasperation. Boys.

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Men, Rivers

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• In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an explosive condition, which was "nonlinear, catastrophic structural exasperation," or to put it another way--as a junior cabinet minister did on television the following night in a phrase which was to haunt the rest of his career--the check-in desk had just got "fundamentally fed up with being where it was.

  Douglas Adams

  Night, Careers, Transition

  "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul". Book by Douglas Adams, 1988.

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• Leo dropped into the pool and approched the cage. "Hola, Tia. Little bit of trouble?" She [Hera] crossed her arms and sighed in exasperation. "Don't inspect me like I'm one of your machines, Leo Valdez. Get me out of here!

  Rick Riordan

  Machines, Arms, Littles

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• Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all there is to it. Period.

  Will Self

  Mother, Moving, People

  Will Self (2012). “The Quantity Theory of Insanity”, p.13, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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