Top 88 Insufferable Quotes & Sayings

In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing seem to me pretty insufferable. I try not to be that guy.

You’ve only had a small glimpse of how insufferable and annoying I can be. As the older brother, it’s my birthright.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.

I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.

My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me and I'm very grateful I can still make a living from it.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

Familiarity breeds attempt. Time wounds all heels. I went down on the Lower East Side today and saw all those Old Testament houses. We're all cremated equal. We're insufferable friends. I've been working my head to the bone.

Anytime I can get either of them really laughing, I immediately pull out a pad of paper write the joke down, regardless of where we are or what we're doing. I must be absolutely insufferable.

I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

When I'm working, I'm insufferable because I get stuck with myself, and suddenly I become obsessive, thinking about how to make something better.

Long before the writer Gillian Flynn popularized the concept of the insufferable 'Cool Girl,' who doesn't exist except in men's fervent fantasies, Hugh Hefner dreamed her, undressed her, and put her in his magazine.

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

Chicago fans are the most insufferable in all sports.

Tell me, how do you cope so calmly With crazy youth's arrogant way? Indeed, youth would be insufferable, Had I myself not also been insufferable.

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

Trump represented a movement of dissatisfaction, the dissent, unhappiness, division cultivated by years of identity politics and the bullying of arrogant, insufferable, intolerant social justice warriors who used the last two terms to punish anyone who reminded them of Daddy.

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

Entering a club is an insufferable two-way street and the patrons are just as guilty as the doormen.

That's what makes me insufferable to be around, is that most of my life I have assumed that everyone wants to see me perform and do things all the time.

Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

I started appreciating and valuing different things. Some things just became insufferable to me, and not just literature. I used to like horror movies and now I couldn't stand them.

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable.

My limitations make space for the gifts of other people. Without the grace of our limitations we would be isolated, dry, and insufferable creatures indeed.

Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.

When you're "East Coast" person, you are so insufferable, and you have no idea. And I was. One, because I was miserable, and nobody liked to be around a miserable person, and two, everything that I thought was so profound, everyone had already dealt with.

The leader’s Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.

A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

Indomitable in victory, insufferable in defeat.

We've been insufferable friends for years.

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

From the very start, if there was a spotlight, I would step into it. My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me, and I'm very grateful I can still make a living from it.

That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger,” said Snape coolly. “Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all.

There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.

I'm quite insufferable about fitness, I suppose. I think it's really important, though I'm not a body nut.

If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

People say, 'Since you got rich and famous, you've become insufferable.' I say, 'That's not true. I've always been insufferable.'

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

I've been accused of being pretentious and insufferable, and I don't really know what I can say about that. I never got good grades in school, but I did read the dictionary for fun. That was just the kind of stuff that I liked to do. I can't apologize for that.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

I just realized at some point that I was hopelessly in love with the theater. I fought it for a long time because I thought theater was for, you know, insufferable actors.