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Disagreeable Quotes (page 5)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you..."
The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them. Aaron Sorkin
Dwight L. Moody quote: "Falsehoods not only disagree with truth, but usually quarell..."
Falsehoods not only disagree with truth, but usually quarell among themselves. Dwight L. Moody
Jane Austen quote: "for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a..."
for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him. Jane Austen
Oscar Wilde quote: "To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of..."
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. Oscar Wilde
Robert Frost quote: "Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting."
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting. Robert Frost
My husband would do anything for me ...' It's degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another."It's a very real power, Harriet."Then ... we won't use it. If we disagree, we'll fight it out like gentlemen. We won't stand for matrimonial blackmail. Dorothy L. Sayers
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and offtimes disagreeable. I suppose I am larger than life. Bette Davis
Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity. Kurt Vonnegut
Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation. Doris Kearns Goodwin
Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility. David Hume
Is a PLONGEUR'S work really necessary to civilization? We have a feeling that it must be 'honest' work, because it is hard and disagreeable, and we have made a sort of fetish of manual work. We see a man cutting down a tree, and we make sure that he is filling a social need, just because he uses his muscles; it does not occur to us that he may only be cutting down a beautiful tree to make room for a hideous statue. I believe it is the same with a PLONGEUR. He earns his bread in the sweat of... George Orwell
The chief reason why the prince was so particularly disagreeable to Vronsky was that he could not help seeing himself in him. And what he saw in this mirror did not gratify his self-esteem. He was a very stupid and very self-satisfied and very healthy and very well-washed man, and nothing else... He was equable and not cringing with his superiors, was free and ingratiating in his behavior with his equals, and was contemptuously indulgent with his inferiors... for this prince he was an... Leo Tolstoy
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it. Maimonides
November is the most disagreeable month in the whole ear,' said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden.'That's the reason I was born in it,' observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.'If something very pleasant should happen now, we should think it a delightful month,' said Beth, who took a hopeful view of everything, even November. Louisa May Alcott

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