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Insufferable Quotes

I should like balls infinitely better,' she replied, 'if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is something insufferably tedious in the usual process of such a meeting. It would surely be much more rational if conversation instead of dancing were made the order of they day.''Much more rational, my dear Caroline, I dare say, but it would not be near so much like a ball. Jane Austen
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
I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy. Isabel Allende
By journey's end the brides were much better acquainted with their grooms and more or less pleased with the matches. Sybil Bingham wrote in her diary, thanking God for answering her prayer for filling "the void" with a husband like Hiram, a "treasure rich and undeserved." Having read his insufferable memoir, "A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands", all I can say is: I'm happy for her? Sarah Vowell
With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing? for she had done mischief. Jane Austen
That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger,” said Snape coolly. “Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all. J. K. Rowling
I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure. Ayn Rand
Blaise Pascal quote: "Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when..."
Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable. Blaise Pascal
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to..."
No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul. W. Somerset Maugham
So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins
Glenn Frey quote: "I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is...."
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
Kurt Sutter quote: "I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable."
I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable. Kurt Sutter
Bryant H. McGill quote: "No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy."
No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy. Bryant H. McGill
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with..."
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul. W. Somerset Maugham
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

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