Quotes About Vexation

If there was one thing in particular that he had learned by growing up in his father's house it was this: how to annoy people.

She doesn't like most people," Lily said as she pulled open the bedroom door. "She says she finds most of them a vexation to her spirit

Science! Curse thee, thou vain toy!

No one can predict which of life's vexations insomnia will favour.

He wrinkled his nose in vexation, struggling for words to form concepts he barely grasped.

It annoyed me more and not less because I didn't have a good reason for being annoyed. I couldn't even come up with anything to say about it.

And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. —ECCLESIASTES

The emotions of women were of no interest to him, and if they displayed them in his presence he was bored and vexed, as one is annoyed by an insistent and not exceedingly intelligent child, or a pampered pet. He found no intellectual satisfaction in conversing with women

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

Life is an irritation.

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

Capture my heart and my mind. Become my ultimate challenge, greatest vexation, strongest desire, and most precious blessing.

You conceited pest.

Bad Fortune!" cries The Vengeance, stamping her foot in the chair, "and here are the tumbrils! And Evremonde will be despatched in a wink, and she not here! See her knitting in my hand, and her empty chair ready for her. I cry with vexation and disappointment!

What was it—I ask myself—that first vexed them into contemplations?

That bloody bastard! That thrice accursed son of a bitch!

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves. You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

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

It raises my spleen more than anything.

But it is fortunate,'' thought she, ``that I have something to wish for. Were the whole arrangement complete, my disappointment would be certain. But here, by my carrying with me one ceaseless source of regret in my sister's absence, I may reasonably hope to have all my expectations of pleasure realized. A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.

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

She wrestled with the tape as if it had deeply insulted her ancestors,

The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.