#unpleasant

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less. ↗

— William John Wills

#been #camels #disappointed #even #fact

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#i #locked #out #perhaps #thought

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#fire #hammer #happens #i #me

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#best #court #ear #fool #foolish

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#change #takes #talking #then #truths

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more. ↗

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

#any #imagining #many #more #pleasant things

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#could #expunge #gladly #him #his

Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#blame #message #messenger #unpleasant

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#coming #men #something #tell #truth

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#diplomatic #truths #unpleasant #unpleasant truths #wearing