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Quotes About Irritating

I find you irritating. (Kat) I haven't even begun to irritate you yet. Imagine what I could do if I applied myself? (Solin) I can imagine. I can also imagine ripping your throat out and tying my shoes with your larynx. (Kat)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
He was beginning to understand that some of the most irritating that his family did stemmed from the depth of their love. And suddenly it felt wonderful to be worried about and fussed over, to be reclaimed by their messy closeness.
~ Elise Broach
But Henry was pretty irritating himself, with his steadfast way of remaining naive, as though life were just what a Sears catalogue told you it was: everyone standing around smiling.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
~ George Eliot
Oh, blameless people are always the most exasperating.
~ George Eliot
People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.
~ Gertrude Stein
She possessed the unique ability to aggravate almost anyone she ever met.
~ Markus Zusak
On typical days, (dust) is simply irritating. On Roid Rage days, it made me want to stomp down to the highway, pull drivers out of their cars, and bash their faces into pavement; Suck up that dirt like a good little Electrolux, Jersey Boy Bitch.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Faced with this endless British troublemaking, Napoleon was, in Bonapartist French eyes, like a kung fu master, meditating peacefully on his prayer mat about progress and democracy while a gang of irritating English boys threw acorns at him, finally forcing him to get up and give them a slap.
~ Stephen Clarke
Arrogance was unattractive enough when it was attached to true talent or brilliance. Attached to childishness, it was just plain irritating.
~ Erica Spindler
Each member of this shadowy network resented the others, who were irritating reminders that nothing was more American, whatever that means, than fleeing the American, whatever that is, and that their soft version of self-imposed exile was just another of late empire's packaged tours.
~ Ben Lerner
St John Philby was a notable scholar, linguist, and ornithologist, and he did achieve fame of a sort, but he might have found more lasting appreciation had he not been so profoundly irritating, willful, and arrogant. He was a man who regarded his opinions, however briefly adopted, as revealed truth: he never backed down, or listened, or compromised. He was equally swift to give and take offense and ferociously critical of everyone except himself.
~ Ben Macintyre
Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
~ Mason Cooley
The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we're doing or takes sides when we have fights - it's more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.
~ Dave Matthews
Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?
~ James Purefoy
Everyone knows what toothache's like: it's one of those dull pains that just won't go away.
~ Andrew Robertson
Mr Nobley: "Ah here you are. Miss Erstwhile. You are infuriating and irritating, and yet I find myself looking for you. I would be grateful if you would send me away and make me swear to never return.
~ Shannon Hale
That's what I'm trying to tell you. You're irresistible." "I am not." "I'm not happy about it. You really are the most irritating person I've ever met. I'd managed to avoid any women of any temptation whatsoever for four years—a very easy task in Pembrook Park. Things were going splendidly, I was right on track to die alone and unnoticed. And then …
~ Shannon Hale
I know, she said. She could. She was really irritating like that. Very, he agreed. There was a thoughtful sadness about him- one that seemed very familiar. I guess she did know what she was doing a little, she said. I got an uncle out of it, at least. Richard stopped pushing his folder and looked up. Yeah. He smiled. It's nice to have a niece, too.
~ Maureen Johnson
Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a hectic, over-stimulated constitution. Their eyes almost invariably hanker after that most irritating and morbid of colours, with its artificial splendours and feverish acrid gleams,-orange.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
I don't think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea - which can be very persistent and irritating - that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state.
~ Spike Milligan
I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.
~ Charlotte Church
Today he hasn't been half as irritating, which I find rather irritating.
~ Melissa de la Cruz