Quotes About Vexation

I don't have pet peeves I have whole kennels of irritation.

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

Miss Marple made a ladylike noise of vexation like a cat sneezing to indicate profound disgust.

Mr Satterthwaite clucked twice in vexation. Whether right in his assumption or not, he was more and more convinced that cars nowadays broke down far more frequently than they used to do.

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

We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.

A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defense of some little peculiar vexation.

So the very first step on the path to blessedness is to be confronted by the spectre of meaninglessness… by inner discontent, sadness, anxiety, regret, frustration, depression. Confucius put it succinctly: "No vexation, no enlightenment; no anxiety, no illumination." (Analects 7:8)

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

Trent sighed, visibly bothered at my admittedly childish behavior, but I was hot, damn it, and needed money, and therefore I was vulnerable to his bribes and his air-conditioned car.

You knew I'd say I'd protect you? And that vexes you? Should I have said that you're shite out of luck and all on your own, but thanks for the hot fuck!

vexation, yet filled with unconscious regret for the terrible unknown things that might have, but had not, happened (23)

Alice was nettled.

There's nothing of so infinite vexation As man's own thoughts. John Webster, The White Devil

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

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

Polly shut her door hard, and felt ready to cry with vexation that her pleasure should be spoilt by such a silly idea, for, of all the silly freaks of this fast age, that of little people playing at love is about the silliest. Polly had been taught that it was a very serious and sacred thing, and, according to her notions, it was far more improper to flirt with one boy than to coast with a dozen.

It shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

Damn that woman!