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Quotes About Annoyance

Simone plays with her jack-in-the-box—an annoying toy that plays "Pop Goes the Weasel" until you'd like to pop the thing with a hammer.
~ Lolly Winston
Beth, if you don't keep these horrid cats down cellar I'll have them drowned," exclaimed Meg angrily as she tried to get rid of the kitten which had scrambled up her back and stuck like a burr just out of reach.
~ Louisa May Alcott
What could be more tiresome than a wife that bleats?
~ Ronald Firbank
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.
~ Bill Gates
I say what I please, and at this moment it pleases me to tell you that you annoy me. Aramis! Porthos!
~ Alexandre Dumas
For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
~ Ambrose Bierce
It was going to be our job to annoy someone?" "I know—it's a dream come true!
~ Joel N. Ross
You piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants.
~ Eddie Izzard
Through forty years of impatience, Nicholas still could not make up his mind which was more annoying, the guile of straight women or the wiles of gay men.
~ Edward Docx
They shall be as thorns in your sides.
~ Anonymous
It is not so fun being asked how tall you are all the time.
~ Anthony Doerr
If we could get on without a wife, Romans, we would all avoid that annoyance; but since nature has ordained that we can neither live very comfortably with them nor at all without them, we must take thought for our lasting well-being rather than for the pleasure of the moment.
~ Anthony Everitt
Il vantaggio più grande che la libertà offre agli esseri umani è quello di allontanarsi da ciò che infastidisce.
~ Anthony Flacco
Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
~ Olivier Martinez
People annoy me when they say, 'Oh, you made a fortune.'
~ Dave Clark
There's no use asking more questions. If you ask a question they tell you it's a mystery, you'll understand when you grow up, be a good boy, ask your mother, ask your father, for the love o' Jesus leave me alone, go out and play.
~ Frank McCourt
Under the conditions prevailing here the servant could not work unerringly, some time the accumulated annoyance, the accumulated uneasiness, must break ou t, and if it manifested itself only in the tearing up of a little piece of paper it was still comparatively innocent.
~ Franz Kafka
perhaps he made too much of the assistants' bad habits; they were young fellows, cheerful and a little simple, taken into a stranger's service for the first time, away from the stern discipline of the castle and so a little surprised and excited all the time, and in that frame of mind, yes, they did sometimes do silly things. Of course it was natural to get annoyed about that, but it would be more sensible to laugh.
~ Franz Kafka
William Regal once told us he people-watched when he was in the ring. He would see things that people would do. And if they annoyed him, chances are they would annoy someone else. A lot of times I'll just people watch when I'm traveling or at the airport or living everyday life.
~ Alexa Bliss
Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.
~ Ben Parr
I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, 'Chill out' to me when I'm irritated!
~ Martin Freeman
There's nothing that winds me up more on Twitter than people who are stupid, and who say the most ridiculous things.
~ Phillip Schofield
It's annoying when someone's in front of you driving ten miles an hour, and you're like, 'Okay, today,' and someone else is on the side of you, so you can't pass them, and when you finally do pass them and they are texting, the laser cannons just come out and disintegrate that car.
~ Glenn Danzig