Irritating You Quotes

#1. Gathering wool, are we? (Ewan)
Nay, merely practicing irritating you, and by the looks of your face, I'd say I'm doing a rather remarkable job of it. My mother always says that any effort worth pursuing is worth pursuing well. (Nora)

Kinley MacGregor

#2. Do you know how irritating you are?" she said. "Because if you don't, I've got time.

Thea Harrison

#3. Whatever you tolerate will continue. If he's doing something wrong - not just something that's irritating - you need to stop tolerating it. This is not the same as trying to change him. It simply means that you change how you react to him.

Sheila Wray Gregoire

#4. Ah, ambushes. Those take me back. The best ones are the ones that start with chloroform and handcuffs, and end with death threats and knives. And by 'best' I mean 'most irritating,' you understand.

Seanan McGuire

#5. Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.

Cheryl James

#6. Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,
a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

Woodrow Wilson

#7. Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.

Ajahn Chah

#8. If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. -

Epictetus

#9. Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating."
"Park benches are irritating to you in some moods."
"Depends on whether or not I want to sit down.

Nora Roberts

#10. I know what you are known as ... but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charges' youthful beginnings.

J.K. Rowling

#11. Mr Nobley: Ah here you are. Miss Erstwhile. You are infuriating and irritating, and yet I find myself looking for you. I would be grateful if you would send me away and make me swear to never return.

Shannon Hale

#12. One of the problems with being famous is people mob you wherever you go. Many of them ask very irritating questions. If I were not the shortest woman in the world, I would not have become famous.

Jyoti Amge

#13. So much in L.A. is waiting. It's so irritating. That's what's good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don't have to sit and wait by your phone. But it is very frustrating.

Norm MacDonald

#14. One day I have a revelation. 'I think we're actually quite compatible,' I tell him. 'You're irritable, and I'm irritating.

Pamela Druckerman

#15. There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

Robert Powell

#16. He's going to be okay," said Quentin. "He has to. He's Tybalt. You'd be all weird and irritating if he wasn't around."
"Weird and irritating?" I raised an eyebrow. "What gives you that idea?"
Quentin shrugged. "That's already how you get when he isn't around.

Seanan McGuire

#17. Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

Kin Hubbard

#18. It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.

George R R Martin

#19. The population of earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called "LinkedIn."

Dave Barry

#20. I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress ...

William Howard Taft

#21. Nothing is boring if you are aware of it. It may be irritating, but it is not boring. If it is pleasant the pleasure will not fail so long as you are aware of it. Being aware is the hardest work the soul can do, I think.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#22. You have got to be the most irritating person I've ever met." "Yeah, I get that a lot.

Kelly Thompson

#23. They never got you, don't you know that? You irritating, charming, stubborn, evolved, intolerable, sweet, complex, caring, melodramatic bastard with your heart of gold. They never got you. You're wholly you, and you're perfect.

Dianna Hardy

#24. Sometimes, it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't feel it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating. (regarding prejudice and discrimination)

Marian Anderson

#25. I tapped the largest of the charms, a shark's tooth capped in silver. "It's never let me down yet." "How do you know?" Jasmine was smirking in an irritating fashion. "I'm not dead," I replied. Daryus

Amy Sanderson

#26. A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'

Rachel Hurd-Wood

#27. Nephew. you were not invited to these discussions.'
'And yet, here I am. It's very irritating, isn't it?' Said Laurent.

C.S. Pacat

#28. Dealing with people whose singular purpose in life is to create problems consumes far too much energy. However, it's much like swatting furiously at an irritating fly; eventually you realize that until you kill it, it will continue to annoy you!

Carlos Wallace

#29. Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn't be seen dead at

Bill Vaughan

#30. I find you irritating. (Kat)
I haven't even begun to irritate you yet. Imagine what I could do if I applied myself? (Solin)
I can imagine. I can also imagine ripping your throat out and tying my shoes with your larynx. (Kat)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#31. Well, it's nice to get something right for a change. You don't know how irritating it is - missing things the way I have been. I feel so useless. So ... normal." She cringed in horror of the word.
"I can't imagine how awful that must feel. Being normal? Ugh.

Stephenie Meyer

#32. He smiled at me, the irritating, superior kind of smile that I would love to try sometime when I wasn't in disguise. "You didn't read your history, did you?" he said. "I don't think this chapter was assigned. What are you talking about?

Jeff Lindsay

#33. You are the most irritating man I've ever met!"
He grinned. "But you like my kisses."...
"Am I not to have dreams, or desires, or enjoy - pleasure? 'Twon't do, Alasdair Og Sinclair, kissing a lass, and then forbidding her to have any more, when it's your fault I like kisses.

Lecia Cornwall

#34. Theophilus Crowe's mobile phone played eight bars of "Tangled Up in Blue" in an irritating electronic voice that sounded like a choir of suffering houseflies, or Jiminy Cricket huffing helium, or, well, you know, Bob Dylan.

Christopher Moore

#35. Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.

Mason Cooley

#36. 'Translations,' Lateran said scornfully, examining the bruises along Kestrel's ribs. 'Like caressing your lover through a burlap sack. You get the gesture of the thing, but not the nuance, and it is overall an irritating experience.'

L.S. Baird

#37. A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

Lemony Snicket

#38. Grandma kept turning around in the front seat of their old Fiat saying, "Look at you girls! On, Lena, you are a beauty!"
Lena seriously wished she would stop saying that, because it was irritating, and besides, how was cranky Effie supposed to feel?

Ann Brashares

#39. There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#40. Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on tape is if the person doing the reading "acts" too much; it becomes irritating to you listening to it.

Salman Rushdie

#41. Ro trails his hands against the wall as he walks. The archivists look at him as he passes. Ro is good at irritating people; he'll find the one thing you don't want him to do, and do it every time. It's one of his many gifts.

Margaret Stohl

#42. You'd think that sweet would be a land far, far away from irritating, but as it turns out they're right next door, and always having border disputes.

Daniel Handler

#43. Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!

Charles Spurgeon

#44. No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.

Nick Moran

#45. It will not have escaped you that this town simulates normality that is completely illusory: every day something happens that one might euphemistically call irritating.

Alessandro Baricco

#46. This is the theory ... that anything that is art ... is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it's no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it's irritating.

Edward Gorey

#47. [She] went around with a beatific smile on her face that could be very irritating if you yourself weren't feeling beatific.

Kate Atkinson

#48. You are an irritating son of a bitch."
"Ah, ma petite, how can I resist you when you whisper such sweet endearments to me?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#49. I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

Jim Parsons

#50. If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

David Ogilvy

#51. Why was it that the instant you sent someone a check, no matter how worthy the organization, the first thing they did was ask you for more? Irritating, and a waste of the money she had just sent them.

Dana Stabenow

#52. I kept flashing back to an argument I used to have with my ex. Every time I vented about work, he rushed to hand-craft a solution, which was an irritating habit. All you want to do is fix me, I spat at him once. But I never thought to ask - Why do I have such a high tolerance for being broken?

Sarah Hepola

#53. Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You're in this business for people to know what you do and like it.

Harry Shearer

#54. You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.

Raymond E. Feist

#55. It would be one of the most irritating experiences in the world to do a lot of work to uncover a fraud and then at have it go from X to 3X and at h the crooks happily partying with your money while you're meeting margin calls. Why would you want to go within hailing distance of that?

Charlie Munger

#56. It's really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, 'I usually don't like female comedians, but your material is great!' It makes the job prospect more daunting. Funny is funny, you know?

Chelsea Peretti

#57. And you you
bitch no irritating
questions re love and permanence only
an unrolling lifetime here
between your rocking thighs
and the semblance of motion

Al Purdy

#58. He's like a rash. The more you scratch him, the more irritating he gets.

Brandon Sanderson

#59. Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

Rupert Everett

#60. Hi there. You must be the boss of this operation. I'm Bonnie, formerly known as B785, or as the general liked to fondly call me, that irritating bloody bitch. But you can call me your newest pain in the ass.

Eve Langlais

#61. The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Warren Buffett

#62. A real relationship doesn't properly begin until the NRE burns away. That's when you have to start dealing with this person as an all-around human being, replete with irritating little habits. When disillusion sets in, love can begin.

Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#63. Stop smiling," I grumbled. "Can't.""Were you this irritating when we met?""I was charming. Very charming.""Where did Mr. Charming go?""That guy didn't have staying power.""But Mr. Irritating? He'll stick around?""Unfortunately.

C.D. Reiss

#64. Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Marian Anderson

#65. My brother asked me once, 'Are you a misanthrope?' And I said, 'No, I just find people irritating.'

Craig Kilborn

#66. My beautiful sister. You are like sunshine: bright, incandescent, and oddly irritating at times. But what else are sisters for?

Darynda Jones

#67. Xav tugged Yves off me and handed me the call button. You'll be needing this, Phee, when my irritating little squirt of a brother bothers you again. Just press and the nurses will come running. One of them looks like a pro-wrestler, so she'll make short work of him.

Joss Stirling

#68. Since when do you look at the side of wonder?"
"I'm trying very hard. It's irritating me, but I'm not giving up. I try to think of a wondrous thought every day when I wake, if you'd really like to know."
"Yes, it's very annoying, but slightly contagious.

Melina Marchetta

#69. You want to be there for emotional support, yet everything you say or do ends up irritating the mother-to-be while she is in labor.

Jim Gaffigan

#70. The irritating question they ask us
us being writers
is: "Where do you get your ideas?"
And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra!

Neil Gaiman

#71. He's irritating." He stood and started to pull up the hem of his shirt. "And he stabbed me."
Alex rolled his eyes. "And you're still alive. Time to get over it."
Kale held his hand out to Ginger. "Fine. Give me something sharp. If I stab him, then we'll be even.

Jus Accardo

#72. I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don't exist, not irritating me to death.

Stephenie Meyer

#73. But Henry was pretty irritating himself, with his steadfast way of remaining naive, as though life were just what a Sears catalogue told you it was: everyone standing around smiling.

Elizabeth Strout

#74. If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

George Bernard Shaw

#75. I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#76. It is said a man doesn't get old while his mother lives. I think it's true. You are always a child in her eyes. It is irritating in the extreme. But you know, when they have gone, you'd give the earth just to hear them treating you like a child once more.

David Gemmell

#77. You're awfully small to be so hugely irritating.

Stephenie Meyer

#78. I don't think you should be allowed to eat in a restaurant if you haven't waited tables at least once. It's so irritating when I see people being rude to waiters, like, it makes me want to slit their throats! Like, really? You're really this inconsiderate?

Lizzy Caplan

#79. It used to be irritating just because someone can meet you and before they would get a chance to get to know you, they'll go find someone else's story about who I am. For me personally, I just always think it's more interesting to get to know the person myself.

Ricky Williams

#80. Ironic, is it not, that the great Divinicus Nex cowers in fear from that which should be her fated prey? A decidedly diametric circumstance.
What? It's irritating when the monster hunting you has a better vocabulary than your own. Maybe it could do my eulogy?

A&E Kirk

#81. Do you know how often people tell me that? And they always look just as surprised. It's really irritating

Caroline Hanson

#82. You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.

Robert Ludlum