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I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable ... I suppose I'm larger than life. — Bette Davis

Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable. — Malachy McCourt

There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

As living in this ideal world became daily more delectable to our hero, interruption was disagreeable in proportion. The — Walter Scott

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. — Victor Hugo

He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of negotiation. — Chris Voss

A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment. — Pliny The Elder

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James

We can agree to disagree, but we don't need to be disagreeable. — John Wooden

It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable. — Hubert Van Zeller

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one. — Florence Nightingale

Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies. — Gaston Rebuffat

When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first. — Josiah Quincy

Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I'm disagreeable ... — Samuel Goldwyn

For he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him. — Jane Austen

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who have gone on to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life. — Mark Twain

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. — John Kenneth Galbraith

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable. — Benjamin Spock

Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable. — Henry Watson Fowler

What are you passionate enough about that you can endure the most disagreeable aspects of the work? — Elizabeth Gilbert

A man may accommodate himself to a disagreeable situation in a few months. The intolerable may take a little longer. — Joyce Carol Oates

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do. — Judith Martin

The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Though we disagree, we should not be disagreeable. — Dallin H. Oaks

It might be a nice world if nobody ever said a disagreeable thing, but it would be a dangerous one, — L.M. Montgomery

Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable. — Robert Gottlieb

That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird. — Martial

If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it. — Jane Austen

Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Humph,' he said, with a disagreeable air, 'the universe does its work very quietly.' ("The Bogey Man") — A.E. Coppard

It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself. — Kate DiCamillo

I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable. — George Mason

Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction. — Saul Bellow

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things. — Pietro Aretino

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want. — Irving Kristol

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. — Jean Racine

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime. — John Ruskin

Evidence of true faith is the determination to trust God when that which He allows makes no sense--and is utterly disagreeable. — David P. Ingerson

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

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes intense desire. — Jeff Wheeler

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations. — James Boswell

Well, if she doesn't like pelicans she must be very disagreeable. — Tess Oliver

Catherine- "How I hate the sight of an umbrella!"
Mrs. Allen- "They are disagreeable things to carry. I would much rather take a chair at any time. — Jane Austen

Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me. — Abraham Lincoln

Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls. — Abigail Adams

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. — Mignon McLaughlin

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. — Criss Jami

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin. — Anne Perry

Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share. — Edward Burnett Tylor

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable. — Morgan Freeman

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped. — William Tecumseh Sherman

If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over. — Thomas Jefferson

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. — John Keats

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far. — Greg Boyle

Some of the most disagreeable people I know are the most ladylike. — Gail Carriger

Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies. — Patrick Rothfuss

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again. — Jane Austen

The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise
a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I want to show the richness of even the most disagreeable bits of life. — Alfonso A. Ossorio

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent. — John Of The Cross

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. — Jimmy Breslin

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

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop. — Winston Churchill

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one. — Samuel Richardson

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue. — Hannah More

People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them. — Henry Ward Beecher

I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man! — W.S. Gilbert

Never be disagreeable just because you disagree. — John Wooden

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do ... — Margaret Oliphant

I did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence. — Sarah Vowell

One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable — Charles R. Swindoll

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others. — William Hazlitt

He's got that way of believing his opinion is the truth, but he's not disagreeable about it. He's too sure he's right to bother being disagreeable. — Mary Ann Shaffer

To disagree one doesnt have to be disagreeable — Barry M. Goldwater

As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons. — John Lancaster Spalding

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward. — Aristotle.

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. — Ambrose Bierce

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President. — James Buchanan

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man. — George Berkeley

It often struck me as strange and disagreeable to hear him utter severe strictures upon some of these persons who seemed to me so good. — Leo Tolstoy

Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up — Lewis Carroll

He glanced at her, musing on the wonder of a beautiful woman with a disagreeable personality. — J.G. Farrell

Did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence - applied — Sarah Vowell

I don't make myself disagreeable; it is you who find me so. Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not my actions. — George Eliot

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. — Samuel Johnson

In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound
and everything that is sound is disagreeable. — Winston Churchill

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back. — Alfred De Musset

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face? — Ann Radcliffe

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods. — Scott Lynch

We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable. — Christine Gregoire

It's a very bad habit to put off disagreeable things ... — L.M. Montgomery

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin. — Richard Steele

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first. — Dorothea Dix

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. — Augustine Birrell

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other. — Samuel Johnson

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render. — Henry David Thoreau

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

We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements. — M. R. DeHaan