Top 100 Annoy Someone Quotes
#1. I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
Nathan Lane
#2. One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#3. From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I'm self-disciplined when it comes to my work. I usually look witheringly at them and snarl, 'What do you think?' I mean, how do you imagine anyone writes a quarter of a million words a year for publication?
Will Self
#4. It was going to be our job to annoy someone?"
"I know - it's a dream come true!
Joel N. Ross
#5. What happened to you? Did you finally annoy someone enough to have them beat the shit out of you?
Anne Stuart
#6. I don't hate you, Cyndi. You're blood. I have to love you. You just annoy the hell out of me. He put one
arm around her thin shoulders.
Jez Morrow
#7. They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself ...
Ruth Rendell
#8. Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.
Jim Butcher
#9. I bet he also didn't mention that I stick pins into the eyes of everybody who annoys me. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is the man who was wise enough to only annoy me once.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#10. Carrying lockpicks was one bad sign. On the other hand, Owl was taking long enough getting the lock open she almost counted as honest.
"I'm not going to offer to do that," he said. "It'd just annoy you."
"If you do not wish to annoy me, be silent. I'm trying to be quiet about this.
Joanna Bourne
#11. Well, I found I am my own best company. I don't annoy myself and I always have something important I want to hear myself say.
Ashlan Thomas
#12. A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer.
Jeffrey Bernard
#13. Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.
Marcus Aurelius
#14. Who needed to argue and exchange insults when you could just annoy the hell out of someone by being overly friendly and bubbly?
Suzanne Wright
#15. When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little voice. And then it changed, and I thought I wouldn't be able to sing again, because I thought you had to sing like Christina Aguilera to be a singer.
Skylar Grey
#16. My mother is the antithesis of a typical Jewish mother, she is very soft-spoken and takes more naps that a cat. As a result, I've always longed for someone to really annoy the shit out of me.
Chelsea Handler
#17. I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.
E.W. Howe
#18. Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
Amy Vanderbilt
#19. It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#20. Curious, the pleasure it gives me to annoy practitioners of force. Do I actually want this Herr Benjamenta to punish me? Do I have reckless instincts? Everything is possible, everything, even the most sordid and undignified things.
Robert Walser
#21. The young woman quoted Turgenev, "If you want to annoy an opponent thoroughly or even harm him, you reproach him with every defect or vice you are conscious of in yourself.
Jack Vance
#22. You cannot teach a poor person to be rich until they change their context. Teaching a person with poor or middle class person's context is a waste of time ... and it does annoy them.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#23. People that hurt or annoy you are irritants, like hemorrhoids...they eventually become assholes
Terry Robertson
#24. I remember my mum saying to me, 'You can give up the violin - when you've done Grade 8.' Which is the highest grade, and the most unfair target ever. So I did all the grades, just to annoy her.
Gethin Jones
#25. The word maybe was beginning to annoy me, because the only thing that was fixed was that maybe would be with me forever.
Markus Zusak
#26. Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
Oscar Wilde
#27. It is said that the things that annoy us the most are the things that we are probably called to resolve.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#28. Stencils are good for two reasons; one - they're quick; two - they annoy idiots
Banksy
#29. My work is my language and I don't discuss it very easily. It's difficult for me to verbalize my feelings, or to intellectualize my work. In fact, it used to annoy me when Ansel Adams and Paul Strand yak-yak-yakked about what photography meant, and I told them so.
Brett Weston
#30. Two things that annoy me, are; people who are positive out of ignorance, and people who are negative out of bitterness, People who are neither usually get along with me and agree with most of what I say. But People who are one of the two think I'm the other and at the end get confused totally.
Auliq Ice
#31. Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ...
"Not this again."
"Not what again?" said Clary.
"Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.
Cassandra Clare
#32. If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
Pietro Aretino
#33. If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.
Erin McKean
#34. It is almost always better to listen and understand than express opinions to annoy.
Debasish Mridha
#35. He who believes in God and the Last Day should honour his guest; he who believes in God and the Last Day should not annoy his neighbours; and he who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep silent.
Elijah Muhammad
#36. I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice.
Oscar Wilde
#37. People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me.
John Bonham
#38. Hhhmm. A sense of humor." He cocked his head to the side.
"That actually might annoy me."
She frowned, ignoring the teasing sound to that oh-so-low voice
and, with heavy sarcasm answered, "Oh, well, that'll keep me up
nights.
G.A. Aiken
#39. I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.
Neal Stephenson
#40. Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand.
Thomm Quackenbush
#41. I am very blessed. The Valley is full of people, but they do not annoy me. I revolve in pathless places and in higher rocks than the world and his ribbony wife can reach.
John Muir
#42. The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.
E.W. Howe
#43. Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
Charles De Gaulle
#44. Is there a reason why you seek every opportunity to annoy me?"
"It's fun. Your scar flashes when you frown. It almost looks like a dimple," said Vikram. "I'm still waiting for your face to turn red with anger. It might make you look like you're blushing. Or perhaps I am making you blush?
Roshani Chokshi
#45. That is God's way. He upsets everything and loves to annoy the vain most of all.
Judith Merkle Riley
#46. But these matters did not annoy him. It is almost certain that if the boat capsized he would have tumbled comfortably out upon the ocean as if he felt sure that it was a great soft mattress.
Stephen Crane
#47. He had no idea what Jilly Lovitz would appreciate or not. And why the hell did her name have so many fucking L's in it? She'd probably done it on purpose, just to annoy him.
Anne Stuart
#48. It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.
Evan Davis
#49. If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
Kingsley Amis
#50. The morning will come In the press of every kiss, With your head upon my chest Where I will annoy you With every waking breath Until you decide to wake up.
Coheed And Cambria
#51. For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?
Honore De Balzac
#52. Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed treehouse.
Cassandra Clare
#53. That's the thing about human beings: if we have a crush on someone, that person's every behavior attracts us even more. But if we don't like that person, the very same behavior will annoy us.
Josh Sundquist
#55. That's the big challenge of life - to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don't annoy your friends with your whining.
Marc Maron
#56. I did have a falsetto, but I only used it when I was joking around with friends or to annoy my girlfriends, or in the shower, because no one else was around. Or in college. I'd go to karaoke bars and sing Tina Turner songs in the original key.
John Lloyd Young
#57. The Lord Uhtred sought to annoy you, bishop," the king said, "and it is best not to give him the satisfaction of showing that he has succeeded.
Bernard Cornwell
#58. Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.
Jenna Morasca
#59. The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.
Stephen Sondheim
#60. If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore.
Pearl Cleage
#61. I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.
Audre Lorde
#62. Don't annoy your readers by over-explaining--by telling them something they already know or can figure out. Try not to use words like "surprisingly," "predictably" and "of course," which put a value on a fact before the reader encounters the fact. Trust your material.
William Zinsser
#63. Try not to annoy your relatives unnecessarily.
Judith Martin
#64. The wrong boy will bore you or annoy you," Mom said. "But the right one? He'll make you laugh, make you feel special.
Jenny B. Jones
#65. I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
A. N. Wilson
#66. Just because they annoy you doesn't mean they're wrong!
Auliq Ice
#67. Oh, the spectacles - I have to wear them when I go abroad, I have such kind eyes you see, beggars and things cluster round and annoy me.
Nancy Mitford
#68. It seems the great advantage of people who annoy us is motivation to engage in reflection.
Auliq Ice
#69. Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.
Pam Brown
#70. In the event of a cabin failure, oxygen masks will drop from the ceiling, and untangling them will annoy you before you die.
Frankie Boyle
#71. Some places are like family. They annoy us to no end, especially during the holidays, but we keep coming back for more because we know, deep in our hearts, that our destinies are intertwined.
Eric Weiner
#72. I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
Roald Dahl
#73. Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.
Helen Mirren
#74. He was sitting in front of the kitchen fire, and after Elizabeth's taunt he cocked up a hind leg and carefully, ostentatiously, groomed his private parts, a habit which he often used with great effect to annoy his women folk.
Olaf Stapledon
#75. I was Carson "Joker" Steele's. End of story. He was mine too, but with a manly man biker, that was secondary. It went with the territory, hand in hand with him staking his claim. This did not bother me. It didn't trouble me. It didn't annoy me. It utterly thrilled me.
Kristen Ashley
#76. The first thought that occurred to me, that night when I heard the chairman of the jury announce my name, was, Just think how many people hate me at this moment. Naturally, I wanted to annoy those people even further by being arrogant.
John Banville
#77. Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.
John Scalzi
#78. You are really starting to annoy me, Stanton."
Nick didn't blink. "Good. By the end of the night I hope to finish the job.
Julie James
#79. There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.
Aubrey De Grey
#80. Oh, Major, you do so love to annoy, don't you?"
"It is the stuff of living, my lady.
Gail Carriger
#81. We shall take great care not to annoy the horse and spoil his friendly charm, for it is like the scent of a blossom - once lost it will never return
Antoine De Pluvinel
#82. We choose our attitudes. When we let little things annoy us, we even choose to be grumpy.
Elmer L. Towns
#83. If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you.
Susan May Warren
#84. If you are going to do something that will annoy people, tell them about it afterwards; then they will only be annoyed that you have done it, and won't have all the exasperation of trying to stop you.
Dorothy Cottrell
#85. Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives, so long as they don't annoy their neighbors too much, each of us has an individual myth that's driving us, which we may or may not know.
Joseph Campbell
#86. Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed?
Anne Lamott
#87. When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences.
Jorge Ramos
#88. No, no I wouldn't annoy him for the world!" Aubrey said. "I do think he was quite pleased to see his little Aubrey, don't you? I have always regarded myself as the feminine influence in the family and quite definitely beneficent.
Georgette Heyer
#89. I couldn't write a female who fell to pieces every time something didn't go right in her life. She would just annoy me too much.
Lori Foster
#90. People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world.
Howie Mandel
#91. It's funny how there are things in this world that do nothing but annoy you, but you know you'd miss them when they're gone.
Markus Zusak
#92. I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
Marilyn Monroe
#93. Whoa, who was that?"
"Madison Stone," Kiara mutters.
"Introduce me to her."
"Why?"
Because I know it'll annoy the shit out of you.
Simone Elkeles
#94. Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them.
George Will
#95. Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.
Brian Eno
#96. There are few phrases that annoy me more than I won't bite. The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: Smile,it can't be that bad! Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad.
Gillian Flynn
#97. Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.
Robert Spencer
#98. But now he said his thoughts aloud many times since there was no one that they could annoy.
Ernest Hemingway,
#100. She talks philosophy and tries to commit suicide every now and again, apparently in order to annoy her husband.
Anton Chekhov
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