Irritation Quotes

It was his knowledge of his own willful stupidity that had brought on his irritation — Keigo Higashino

If you feel irritated or threatened by others' beliefs,
it's a sign that you're experiencing crisis of confidence. — Toba Beta

There is an art to irritation that only few of us can achieve. — Gail Carriger

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic. — Edna Ferber

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. — Thomas De Quincey

A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader ... as an irritating voice is to a listener. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The ... increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else. — Bertrand Russell

Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation. — Geoff Dyer

Being short and seeing a promoter take the stock up is very irritating. It's not worth it to have that much irritation in your life. — Charlie Munger

Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity. — Anita Roddick

Every day with you is an adventure I never wanted. Like swimming naked through shards of glass. — Brian Clevinger

We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other- the grist for each other's pearl making. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

One scientist had discussions about love and compassion. Usually, he felt irritation. After our meeting, for some months, anger never come. — Dalai Lama

They don't understand it. They're not old enough to know the first instinct of irritation should be avoided in order to keep an open mind. — Amelia Gray

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation. — Steve Maraboli

The fact that I had been on the point of making a similar heroic gesture was quite ignored, and this only increased my irritation. — Wilbur Smith

This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go. — Pema Chodron

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation. — Jonathan Swift

There are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation. — Patricia Wentworth

I was surprised that he was so muscular. I had always assumed he was eighty percent alcohol and twenty percent irritation. — Lynnie Purcell

The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power. — Spencer W. Kimball

That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation. — Ransom Riggs

Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes — Eckhart Tolle

Why do I feel like love and irritation go hand in hand with you? — Colleen Hoover

If he could just get rid of the harsh irritation of his conscious thinking, then he would be all right; then he would be at peace — Don Berry

Irritation. The right lower limb was visible through a fresh cut in the plastic. — Kathy Reichs

I could pop with all the fear, irritation, and love. — David Mitchell

Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing. — William P. Young

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you. — Amit Kalantri

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war. — Orson Scott Card

I DO have feelings for Curls. Feelings of annoyance and irritation, mainly, spiked with occasional pangs of pity. — Rob Reger

His face registered the five stages of unlawful investigation: disbelief, skepticism, impatience, irritation, and astonishment. — Suzanne M. Trauth

Is this going anywhere? I have some important "Not being in the same room as you" to get done. — Brian Clevinger

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe. — Anne Robinson

I'll graduate high school with a major in Cynicism & a minor in Irritation. — Chelsea Pitcher

I came from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. — Flannery O'Connor

if we have any unforgiveness, bitterness, selfishness, pride, anger, irritation, or resentment in our hearts, our prayers will not be answered. — Stormie O'martian

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. — Joan Didion

Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words. — Peter Mayle

My irritation with Niles was growing, though. I had always thought the quiet man was the most overrated form of human life. — Pat Conroy

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join. — Agnes Repplier

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess. — Dale Carnegie

Avoid irritation more than exposure to the sun ... In the tropics one must before everything keep calm.' ... — Joseph Conrad

Avast talking about me as though I were not standing here. — Lisa Norato

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies. — Sergei Lavrov

Is there a point to your latest irritation, Kish? (Sin) Had a sudden death wish. Felt the deep need to come up here and have you freeze me. (Kish) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl. — Surya Das

When things are said in anger, irritation or frustration, you can put a hole into someone just like you have put a hole into that fence. — Robin S. Sharma

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The one who can't restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do." -Horace — Genna Rulon

The message we give our bodies - one of irritation or acceptance - is the message to which our bodies will answer. — Debbie Shapiro

Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things — John Schuerholz

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. — Dorothy Parker

Die, the queen thought at it, in irritation, fly into the flame and be done with it. — George R R Martin

He found his irritation that the American memory could be short. — James Carl Nelson

Life is an irritation. — Christopher Moore

I think we all keep irritating situations in our head to long, until we finally realize it's taking up valuable space. — Ron Baratono

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both. — Flannery O'Connor

Your words are fire giants besieging the Asgard of my mind. — Brian Clevinger

The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me. — Anita Brookner

I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation. — Whoopi Goldberg

Embracing conflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and fascination. — Thomas Crum

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Goodwin scowled at her cup. With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense. — Tamora Pierce

huff. "I need to renew my plates," he said. Irritation — Denise Grover Swank

he just accepted my dart of irritation, my pinch of meanness. — Harlem Dae

Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble. — Craig Brown

People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced. — Nora Roberts

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. — Horace

Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow. — James Russell Lowell

Irritation for some men was their response to strain. — Guy Gavriel Kay

To my irritation, you still can't flick through an ebook properly; you can't riffle the pages, you can't look at more than one page at once. — Nick Harkaway

Someone with a deeper inner awareness will not be bothered by outer irritation. — Debasish Mridha

I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation. — Whoopi Goldberg

He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language. — Maggie Stiefvater

Much of the irritation people feel at personal observations was usually because there was a grain of truth in them. — Lucinda Riley

She couldn't hold in her irritation. "What's so funny?"
He reached out and touched the tip of her nose.
"You. — Caroline Fyffe