Quotes About Annoyance

Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?

But that's the wrong question. Ask why everyone else is so pathetically stupid and why they're always whining about detention, I should get a medal for not slapping people in the face every day.

Interesting, is it not?" I must be better, I thought: his gnomic utterings were irritating me again. I replied in my customary way; namely, I ignored him.

Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.

Does he feel my request is unreasonable? ("Why does my mother bug me to wash behind my ears? Nobody looks there.")

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

The list of ways that others bother us is endless.

Anger certainly seems to have an evolutionary basis. It serves a social purpose: displays of anger encourage others to change their behaviour and thus work to stop people transgressing societal rules that keep us cohabiting comfortably. If we neither felt nor exhibited annoyance, we would become 'slavish', in Aristotle's words, and an easy target for exploitation

Scarlett soon found herself leaning halfway out the window, trying to figure out how to get the shutters closed. If she killed herself trying to close these darn things, she was going to be super annoyed.

Now it occurred to him the changes of mental state that might be important were just such minor things as this abnormal irritability. Not so dramatic as visions and fevers, maybe. But important. An attitude of carelessness, or annoyance, clouded your judgment, and that was not a good thing in the woods.

Everyone can understand how salutary it [the rosary] is, especially in our times wherein sometimes a certain annoyance of the things of the spirit is felt even among the Faithful, and a dislike, as it were, for the Christian doctrine. ~ Pope Pius XI

Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.

From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye.

Elaine: Ugh, I hate people. Jerry: Yeah, they're the worst.

Bill was buying shoe-shines for Mike. Bootblacks opened the street door and each one Bill called over and started to work on Mike. This is the eleventh time my boots have been polished, Mike said. I say, Bill is an ass.

The subject of money was not mentioned again at the time, but when Miss Todd began going to Mrs Morland as secretary, she insisted on having an account from Dr Ford, much to his annoyance. He persuaded, he blustered, he was almost pathetic, but Miss Todd stood firm. All he could do was talk to her in her front garden instead of in her drawing-romm, and put her fees, which she luckily paid in cash, into his safe, in an envelope marked Property of Miss Anne Todd left with me for safe keeping.

Exasperated, Dee began, "Molly-" "I'm not hearing you.  I can't hear you.  Can you hear anything, Del?" "Only some whining.  I thought it was a mozzie.  If it keeps going, I'm getting the fly swat and smack it a good one.

Oi! Can't a poor Boggart have no peace?

Alice was nettled.

Maar Brandneus negeerde Jannit. Hij vond het verveld als mensen met hun armen zwaaiden en dingen riepen als: 'Hierheen, híérheen! O, alle gaffelschoeners nog aan toe, wat doet dat beest nu weer?

Let folk into your life and they started making demands. She hated people making demands.

It was the sloppy thinking, the laziness which irritated him most.

Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.