#disagreeable

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#thing #whipped

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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You can die trying to get along with a disagreeable man,” she said, and I put a star beside it when I wrote it down and then taped it to the rear-view mirror for the rest of the drive. She hadn’t said “abusive,” I noticed; she had said that just disagreeable could kill you. ↗

— Debby Bull

#killing #marriage #love

I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#crazy #disagreeable #duty #enact #felt

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

— John Keats

#capable #disagreeable #evaporate #every #excellency

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

— Benjamin Spock

#become #competitive #disagreeable #encouraged #many

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#enemies #friendship #friendship

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#advantages #devil #disagreeable #distance #his

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance. ↗

— William Hague

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

— Frank Moore Colby

#angry #anybody #disagreeable #feeling #generally