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Quotes About Uninvited

My anger's a bad guest, my mother likes to say: comes without warning and stays a long time.
~ Naomi Novik
Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited.
~ Thomas Merton
Hi, Tony." "I thought I'd gotten rid of him for good," Portenson said in a way that didn't reveal if he was joking or not. "But here he is again, like a bad penny.
~ C.J. Box
The next time someone pesters you with unneeded advice, gently remind him of the fate of the monk whom Ivan the Terrible put to death for delivering uninvited (and moralizing) advice. It works as a short-term cure.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Of course such advice is usually unsolicited.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
gently remind him of the fate of the monk whom Ivan the Terrible put to death for delivering uninvited (and moralizing) advice.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The scythedom—or what was left of it after the global revolts—had a new calling. They no longer brought uninvited death. Instead they brought much-needed peace.
~ Neal Shusterman
You weren't s'posed to be here,
~ George R.R. Martin
Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.
~ Howard Thurman
The iguana was not invited.
~ Laini Taylor
I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'
~ Gary Allan
When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly.
~ John O'Toole
Going to a party uninvited always has been a negative action. It never has been acceptable. At the very least, it upsets kitchen preparations, parking arrangements, and even details such as space for hanging coats and depositing dripping umbrellas.
~ Letitia Baldrige
the dark as it hit late afternoon thick like someone who stops by your place and just won't leave.
~ Daniel Handler
I felt like Frederic Moreau arriving late and uninvited at Monsieur Dambreuse's elite salon in Flaubert's Sentimental Education—a
~ Chris Kraus
I attended one of the many Mexican weddings that weekend, as an uninvited, eavesdropping celebrant.
~ Paul Theroux
The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.
~ Stephen King, Bag of Bones
Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
~ William Shakespeare
You ought not to be here tonight, little ant
~ Holly Black
For some reason Miss Jenner had seen fit to come uninvited to Sebastian's home at a scandalously late hour. To make the situation even more compromising, she was unaccompanied—and spending more than a half minute alone with Sebastian was sufficient to ruin any girl. He was debauched, amoral, and perversely proud of it. He excelled at his chosen occupation—that of degenerate seducer—and he had set a standard few rakes could aspire to.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Death is the guest you didn't invite: arriving when you least expect it, least need it and when you least want it.
~ Jodi Picoult
There is always that one girl who talks about things you weren't invited to in front of you.
~ Unknown
The man smiled. "I was not invited. I interrupted.
~ Madeline Miller
Love is a uninvited visitor. It never tells when it's coming and when it's leaving.
~ Unknown