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Quotes About Unpleasantness

You can tell all Namorn this is what happens when I am vexed, she informed him softly. Little *bitch*, he snapped. Sandry looked him over soberly. If you had understood that earlier, we could have avoided this unpleasantness, she replied.
~ Tamora Pierce
About my marriage life, it has been pretty painful, pretty sad. I can't say there was no unpleasantness at all. I can't say it was smooth and happy or anything. There were lot of painful experiences we both went through.
~ Amala Paul
You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.
~ Terry Pratchett
He had way mixed feelings about Fineas Rigg; in some ways he was interesting, and attractive as a pesonality, in others he was seriously unpleasant, although Ays could never specify how exactly. Fineas was always polite and friendly.
~ Storm Constantine
The Business of the World is Trade and Death, and you must engage with that unpleasantness, as the price of your not-at-all-assur'd Moment of Purity.— Fool.
~ Thomas Pynchon
finding success. It leads to unpleasantness that I would rather . . . avoid. Even the greatest jockeys, the men everyone delighted to cheer for, cannot now get a decent mount, South or North. And if they do chance to ride, it has become perilous. The White jockeys collaborate against them to provoke falls.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Mrs. Bennet, Lady Bertram, Mrs. Norris, Mrs. Elton, the Steele sisters, Fanny Dashwood, Elizabeth Elliot, Mrs. Clay, Lady Catherine de Bourgh … all differentiated, all unique in their unpleasantness.
~ Claire Harman
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life and avoid it as much as possible.
~ Leo Tolstoy
said made her even more special. Even so, to avoid any unpleasantness that could develop, friends and family never referred to the adoption, so that in time the fact of it was almost forgotten or never known. But
~ Leila Meacham
I'm a firm believer in denial. My reasoning is why deal with unpleasantness today when you could get hit by a bus tomorrow. And if you procrastinate long enough, maybe the issue will go away.
~ Janet Evanovich
One of the more stressful parts of modern life is dealing with all the unlikeable people who populate it. If they don't kill themselves with their own unpleasantness and rudeness, they'll drive the rest of us to drink.
~ Tim Sanders
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back
~ Mignon McLaughlin