Quotes About Irritating Others

#1. I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.

David Benioff

#2. A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

Madame Roland

#3. It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

Christopher Moore

#4. Mr. Thwaites was, of course, a pronounced and leading Christmasist, being the instinctive leader of everything irritating and depressing, and the others followed him.

Patrick Hamilton

#5. I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating.

Jim Butcher

#6. A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.

Hector Hugh Munro

#7. Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

Oscar Wilde

#8. Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

Barbara Mertz

#9. On typical days, (dust) is simply irritating. On Roid Rage days, it made me want to stomp down to the highway, pull drivers out of their cars, and bash their faces into pavement; Suck up that dirt like a good little Electrolux, Jersey Boy Bitch.

Augusten Burroughs

#10. Theatricals can be irritating, but will provide a better night out than mobile phone salespeople.

Arthur Smith

#11. She's an irritating, opinionated woman, a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A person, deprived, for life, of any understanding or taste for the main current of poetry that flows through things, all things.

J.D. Salinger

#12. 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

#13. There are a lot of irritating aspects about large supermarkets for the wannabe eco-warrior, but the one that gets most of us hottest under the collar is packaging.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#14. How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!

Daniel Radcliffe

#15. I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.

David Benioff

#16. 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

#17. And birds in the hand such an irritating way of pecking your fingers, shitting in your palm, and then flying away.

Stephen King

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

Brandon Sanderson

#19. 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

#20. On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.'

Stephen Tobolowsky

#21. 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

#22. I had an irritating flash of nervousness, wondering if he was right outside - or across the street, or downstairs, or hiding in a closet. Because I couldn't stop myself, I rushed to the hall closet and flung it open to make sure. Packed

Cherie Priest

#23. No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.

Michio Kaku

#24. I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said ...

Nellie L. McClung

#25. 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

#26. I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

Marilyn Monroe

#27. Cal curled his fingers around mine and raised my left hand to the brownish flower. There was a callus on his thumb that should have been irritating against my skin.

Rachel Hawkins

#28. Prue hadn't really been in love with Fabian. Indeed, it was obvious that at times she found him both boring and irritating. But wasn't that what so many marriages were - finding a person boring and irritating and yet loving him? Who could imagine a man who was never boring, or irritating?

Barbara Pym

#29. Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.

Baruch Spinoza

#30. Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

W. H. Auden

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Music, I regret to say, affects me merely as an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds. Under certain emotional circumstances I can stand the spasms of a rich violin, but the concert piano and all wind instruments bore me in small doses and flay me in larger ones.

Vladimir Nabokov

#35. Each member of this shadowy network resented the others, who were irritating reminders that nothing was more American, whatever that means, than fleeing the American, whatever that is, and that their soft version of self-imposed exile was just another of late empire's packaged tours.

Ben Lerner

#36. The satisfaction an imbecile derives from having right on his side and being certain of success is especially irritating.

Marcel Proust

#37. Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

Madeleine L'Engle

#38. Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

Mark Twain