Quotes About Irksome

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

No vice is more irksome than that of voicing one's virtues

It is always the little things that make you sore.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

Women want to own a man, and that grows irksome.

aggravating

The best things in life are . . . Annoying.

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

The discourse of fools is irksome.

Yes, he's like a rash for which there's no cure. It only goes away for a bit before returning unexpectedly to ruin every pleasurable experience. He should have been named Herpes rather than ZT. Or maybe just Herpes Z, since he's a very special irritant. (Arik)

The Flying squirrel flies, and the Irksome squirrel irks. The Spinning squirrel spins and the Smirking squirrel smirks. The Crapulous craps and the Lurking lurks; But when the Talking squirrel talks, none but a Listening Human works.

here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use. That razor brain blunted and rusted with inaction.

It's too annoying. Too me.

Now I am fearless, a man with nothing to lose, a man who finds your company irksome, like a poor wayfarer who walks and sings at the top of his voice, unafraid of cruel brigands.

Certain things just rub me the wrong way.

Flies are of course always irksome, but the Australian variety distinguishes itself with its very particular persistence. If an Australian fly wants to be up your nose or in your ear, there is no discouraging him. Flick at him as you will and each time he will jump out of range and come straight back. It is simply not possible to deter him.

Bond found this irksome. He disliked being cosseted. It gave him claustrophobia.

Nature does not often say 'See?' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome, outworn game.

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

He respected the slight nervous shadow that crossed her face when he came too near her. But there arose out of this denial itself the perfume of a tenderness, that ghost of passion which, in the most unexpected relationship, can make even a whole lifetime devoted to irksome duty pass like a gracious dream.

Loneliness is only sweet to a man if it rids him of presences irksome and unwanted, and it is no longer sweet when the beloved presences are discovered.

Montmorency's ambition in life, is to get in the way and be sworn at. If he can squirm in anywhere where he particularly is not wanted, and be a perfect nuisance, and make people mad, and have things thrown at his head, then he feels his day has not been wasted. To get somebody to stumble over him, and curse him steadily for an hour, is his highest aim and object; and, when he has succeeded in accomplishing this, his conceit becomes quite unbearable.

What? Arseholes like him give me a headache, and I've already got a big enough one to begin with. If you ask me, he's watched too many episodes of Line of Duty.