Irritated Quotes - Page 2

• There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join

  Agnes Repplier

  Irritation, Laughing, Secret

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.

  Louise Erdrich

  Here I Am, Feels, Ought

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• I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it.

  Sophia Bush

  School, Kids, Doctors

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• When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.

  Kerry King

  Home, Writing

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• There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Government, Eyebrows, People

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• The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.

  Emanuel Celler

  Pace, My Family

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.

  Dario Argento

  Fans

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• It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

  Leo Szilard

  Experts, Done, Effects

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• One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

  Anatole France

  Men, Giving, Mind

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

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• Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Juice, Excess

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.351

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• I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.

  Howard Stern

  People, Lightning, Knows

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• Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'll tell you to move it back, clean it up, throw it in the trash - don't matter, just get rid of it. I need stuff neat, organized. And once I start cleaning stuff, I don't stop until it's done. Otherwise I'm irritated all day.

  Russell Westbrook

  Moving, House, Needs

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• Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

  Khalil Gibran

  Tears, Genius, Mask

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• Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how - has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home - within the family, so to speak - our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Attitude, Home, Two

  "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, (p. 207), 1993.

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• There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it's a complete pain for the girls.

  Prince William

  Girl, Pain, Doe

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• I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

  E. M. Forster

  Thinking, People, Three

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• Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

  Lev Shestov

  Atheism, Belief, Madness

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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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• One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

  Patrick Stewart

  Kings, Irritation, Years

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• When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Consistency, Problem, Speak

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• The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Character, Frustration, America

  Archibald MacLeish (1978). “Riders on the Earth: essays and recollections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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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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• As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

  Imperfection, United States, May

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• Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

  Edith Wharton

  Discovery, Innocence, Ought

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.28, VM eBooks

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