Top 245 Disagreeable Quotes & Sayings

Dad knew how to disagree without being disagreeable or rude.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable.

We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.

Though we disagree, we should not be disagreeable.

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

I want to show the richness of even the most disagreeable bits of life.

If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do

The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and lives throughout the world. All genuine art seeks the spirit. Even when art wishes to represent the ugly, the disagreeable, it is concerned, not with the sensory - disagreeable as such, but with the spiritual which proclaims its nature in the midst of unpleasantness. If the spiritual shines through the ugly, even the ugly becomes beautiful. In art it is upon a relation to the spiritual that beauty depends.

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do.

So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn’t it? Wait a minute, there’s a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? …Ah, I see; it’s life without a break.

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I'm disagreeable.

Never be disagreeable just because you disagree.

Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share.

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.

A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment.

Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.

I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable.

The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable

We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements.

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

We can agree to disagree, but we don’t need to be disagreeable.

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."