Quotes About Irked

Vern was alternately amused or irked by humans' reaction to his appearance. On this occasion, he experienced both emotions within a second of each other. The first guy blurted, Hail, Satan. Which was presumably a last ditch attempt to change saviours to appease the devil heading for him.

Except that, almost against his will, he did care about Robin. He felt familiar stirrings of a desire to make her happy that irked him . . .

His paternal tone irked me no end, and that helped to steel my resolve. I couldn't sell out the the Sixers.

She irked me, her behaviour and everything. No respect, no understanding. But we had to play along. What the Lord wanted, we had to want as well.

Elizabeth disliked the tragic, martyred image of Virginia Woolf which grew up after her death. When she read the first volume of William Plomer's autobiography, At Home, in 1958, she told him that 'only you seem to bring back Virginia's laughter - I get so bored and irked by the tragic fiction which has been manufactured about her since 1941.

He was appalled to see the expedition so casually misreported. Like everyone else in the team, Hunt thought that the issue of who had stepped on the summit first was absurd but he was also irked by repeated references to Tenzing "having guided" the British team. The Everest victory was the result of teamwork and everyone had played a role.