Exasperates It Quotes

#1. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Emile M. Cioran

#2. There is nothing by which a man exasperates most people more, than displaying a superior ability of briliancy in conversation. They seem pleased at the time; but their envy makes them curse him at their hearts.

Samuel Johnson

#3. Reading is an activity of civilized beings.

Toba Beta

#4. Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

Paul Valery

#5. There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#6. Nothing, I suppose, exasperates a woman more than the sexual desire for her of a man who is physically repellent to her, and when, to put it bluntly, he will not take no for an answer, she may very well come to hate him.

W. Somerset Maugham

#7. We find beauty in poison, and we love the bitter taste.

Cole McCade

#8. When you behold an aspect for whose constant gloom and frown you cannot account, whose unvarying cloud exasperates you by its apparent causelessness, be sure that there is a canker somewhere, and a canker not the less deeply corroding because concealed.

Charlotte Bronte

#9. Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.

Elie Metchnikoff

#10. My needs are simple and few, thought Valentine. Food. Clothing. A comfortable place to sleep. And no idiots.
But of course a world with no idiots would be lonely. If she herself were even allowed there.

Orson Scott Card

#11. Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.

George William Russell

#12. Stubborn, loyal, utterly driven to accomplish your mission." "Basically, you're both crazy heroes." "And everybody thinks you're both hot," says Dee. I scoff. "Now I know you're full of it.

Susan Ee

#13. The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Albert Einstein

#14. He had that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the perturbations of sentiment, the tyrannies of art, and always a certain contempt for social conventions, that seduces or exasperates them.

Gustave Flaubert

#15. In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

John Reed