Quotes About Unpleasant

His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity. His books are about unpleasant people leading lives of surpassing dullness.

Poirot said: "Yes. It is not pleasant to think, is it, that now, at this very moment, someone is rejoicing at the successful carrying out of his or her plan.

Anne e groaznic de sensibil?, continu? Rhoda. ?i nu se pricepe s? ias? din situa?iile nepl?cute. Dac? o sup?r? ceva, prefer? s? nu vorbeasc? despre asta, de?i nu-i folose?te la nimic - cel pu?in, nu cred. Lucrurile sunt la fel, indiferent c? vorbe?ti despre ele sau nu. Doar fugi de ele ?i te prefaci c? nu exist?.

Like flies in custard." "Worms in ice cream," said Donna. "Maggot jelly," said Eugene.

I found olive oil and grated cheese all over my bed. I picked up my comforter, and it was on my sheets, my pillow.

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.

We are accustomed to the idea that the truth of things may be neither pleasant nor comforting; we are less accustomed to the idea that the truth may be unfruitful.

The kid said: "I don't like drunks in the first place and in the second place I don't like them getting drunk in here, and in the third place I don't like them in the first place.

The only news he wanted to hear was that people had become a little sensible and decent and peace- ful; he disliked this Cup-Tie attitude, in which people took sides for the sake of excitement, and rooted for their team to win without any sense of responsibility. This passion for vicarious belligerence! Obviously neither of them really believed that anything unpleasant would happen to them, and the bogey of being stoned by strikers was only evoked for the sake of a little uncostly excitement.

The truth is not kind.

It was a wretched feeling, like wearing wet socks.

You think she's got a personality disorder? No, she's just a nasty bitch. An unpleasant personality isn't a medical condition. Just a symptom of not being slapped around the head enough.

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

I'm not a big fan of spiders, rats, especially if they're like - I got up one morning on a holiday recently, and there was a centipede in the bed that big. I wasn't very happy about that.

I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences.

No one here likes a wet dog.

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

Thus, we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

He looked like a man who'd invited himself to dinner only to discover that the special of the day was a plateful of shit.

it smelled like jail...sore knees and loose assholes.