Top 100 Quotes About Nuisance
#1. One damn sure thing! - he wasn't going to let them be rough with that Smith lad. He was a nuisance, granted, but he was a nice lad and rather appealing in a helpless, half-witted way.
Robert A. Heinlein
#2. It will be a nuisance if he even suspects I spare the merest moment to ponder the Intruder, and he would willfully misinterpret it. I think of her only because I am concerned with their security. The thought was so lame and uncertain in his own mind, it made him growl.
K.M. Shea
#3. Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
Fay Weldon
#4. Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
Yolanda Adams
#6. You were never clingy or a nuisance, Tate. The day you moved in next door I thought you were the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. I fucking loved you.
Penelope Douglas
#7. Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
G.K. Chesterton
#8. Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#9. I have realized that my will, no matter how intelligent I am, is only another nuisance on the face of the earth, once I start exerting it. And other people's wills are even worse.
D.H. Lawrence
#10. It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#11. Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea's breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
Jack London
#12. Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace.
George Jonas
#13. I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.
George Bernard Shaw
#14. A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
George Sutherland
#15. I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now.
Amory Lovins
#16. Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss
Can never hope to wage a Global Mission.
No Holy Wars for them. The most the small
Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
Robert Frost
#17. If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.
Carl Jung
#19. I should have guessed Kashmir would become a nuisance. And a bad influence. But most importantly, a friend.
Heidi Heilig
#20. Kids are clever and full of fun but, oh, they can be a terrible nuisance!
Alice Provensen
#21. A soul is a thing so impalpable, so often useless and sometimes such a nuisance, that the loss of it disturbed me less than if I had lost my visiting card while taking a walk.
Charles Baudelaire
#22. As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object
It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me
But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.
Virginia Woolf
#23. I'm going to take every chance I get to make a nuisance of myself when somebody I admire is in the vicinity ...
Nick Hornby
#24. My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.
Steven Pinker
#25. At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance
Tom Holt
#26. I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.
George Bernard Shaw
#27. Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#28. You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.
Rumer Godden
#29. Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.
Garrison Keillor
#30. The nose. It can be a nuisance in winter and such a blessing before a meal.
Richard Llewellyn
#31. We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility in other people.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#32. Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.
Barry Commoner
#33. No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
Plautus
#34. Self-awareness - the commendable ability to be yourself without being a nuisance to someone else.
Criss Jami
#35. My problems are sort of more on a nuisance level. I can't stand scratchy clothes, I've got to have soft kinds of cotton against my skin, and I don't know why some 100% cotton t-shirts itch and others don't; it has something to do with the weave.
Temple Grandin
#36. Computer hackers are the true journalists in the 21st Century. The old journalism is worse than dead. It is unreliable to the point that it is nothing more than a nuisance, an obstacle in the pursuit of truth.
A.E. Samaan
#37. Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.
Marjorie Hillis
#38. Your sister is a fucking nuisance," Luca muttered in my ear.
Cora Reilly
#39. The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.
Katharine Lee Bates
#40. Money," he said, "is a terrible nuisance. But it's nice not to have to worry.
Hugh Lofting
#41. THREE DAYS LATER A MESSAGE WAS LEFT UNDER A PEBBLE UPON THE SUNDIAL." "'If it really annoys you, Hilton, we might go and travel, you and I, and so avoid this nuisance.' "'What, be driven out of our own house by a practical joker?
Arthur Conan Doyle
#42. I still vote civilization a nuisance, society a humbug and all conventionality a crime.
Isabella L. Bird
#43. Don't always refuse to go shopping with your wife. Of course it's a nuisance, but sometimes she honestly wants your advice, and you ought to be pleased to give it.
Blanche Ebbutt
#44. She grew into a quiet, beautiful young woman. The beauty was a nuisance, like smog and poverty.
John Varley
#45. We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
E. M. Forster
#46. Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.
William H. Stewart
#47. When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
Charles Olson
#49. I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary
Hugh Lofting
#50. Being adored is a nuisance. Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them.
Oscar Wilde
#51. They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.
Prince Philip
#52. If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.
Dilip Kumar
#53. I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance.
Thomas Beecham
#54. Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.
Oscar Wilde
#55. Ah! what a nuisance people's people are!
Oscar Wilde
#56. The followers of Jesus, though, did not kill their offspring, even when it would have made economic or social sense to do so.6 This is still distinctively Christian in a world that increasingly sees children as, at best, a commodity to be controlled and, at worst, a nuisance to be contained.
Russell D. Moore
#57. Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.
Neil Welliver
#58. We all know that a vast proportion of travel is accumulated nuisance; but if boredom or awfulness is handled with skill and concrete detail, it is funnier and truer than the sunniest prose.
Paul Theroux
#59. I once tried hawking my own book around the pubs in the hope that, like the Salvation Army, I too could sell to the cerebrally relaxed. It was a disaster. I had beer thrown over me for being a) a nuisance, b) not as good as Wordsworth and c) a nancy for writing poetry in the first place.
Peter Finch
#60. Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.
Geert Hofstede
#61. Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.
Philip Howard, 20th Earl Of Arundel
#62. Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.
Katherine Anne Porter
#63. France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
Thomas Sowell
#64. If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
Margery Allingham
#65. Being covered in white paint ,you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance,which did in fact cause offence to members of the public ,and created a breach of the peace and public order.
Gunter Brus
#66. A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#67. There's a natural point in the development of any religion where the prophet becomes first a nuisance and then a positive liability. Just imagine Jesus walking into an evangelical church while the collection plate was being passed around
Adrian Barnes
#68. My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.
Vladimir Nabokov
#69. I have never been married. The married women of my acquaintance rarely speak of their husbands at all, except as a nuisance to be borne.
Ashley Gardner
#70. To one full of love:
a stranger is his brother,
a stranger is his sister,
a stranger is his mother,
a stranger is his father.
To one full of self:
a stranger is a nuisance,
a stranger is an intruder,
a stranger is an adversary,
a stranger is a stranger.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#71. If you're a company, my advice is to remember that you can't have it both ways. You can't treat your customers like family one moment and then treat them impersonally - or, even worse, as a nuisance or a competitor - a moment later when this becomes more convenient or profitable.
Dan Ariely
#72. The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#73. Rosaleen was a nuisance. Her children thought she was a nuisance because it was true. She was. A Nuisance.
Rosalene was a nightmare. She was very difficult. She was incrasingly difficult. She made her children cry.
Anne Enright
#74. [Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.
H.L. Mencken
#75. Pello, if I wanted two guys, I would have two guys, one's a big enough nuisance as it is.
Sally Courtnix
#76. I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.
Andy Grove
#77. A profound theme is of trifling importance if the characters knocked around by it are uninteresting, and brilliant technique is a nuisance if it pointlessly prevents us from seeing the characters and what they do.
John Gardner
#78. It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Baruch Spinoza
#79. You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
Rudyard Kipling
#80. The special joy of putting a lead ball into any person who presents a nuisance.
Jonathan L. Howard
#81. Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
Emile Zola
#82. Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.
David Low
#83. A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.
James Van Allen
#84. The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.
Susan Sontag
#85. I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.
Hortense Calisher
#86. The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try.
Yiyun Li
#87. I'm sure the Bursar would not agree with those figures," said the Senior Wrangler sourly.
"That is so,' said Ponder, "but I'm afraid that is because he regards the decimal point as a nuisance.
Terry Pratchett
#88. I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.
Will Rogers
#89. Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#90. What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
#91. Blindness is not so much a tragedy as it is a damn nuisance.
Sonora Carver
#92. The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
Robert Staughton Lynd
#94. Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.
Terry Pratchett
#95. I hope you were right," he whispered. "I hope there's beauty in my asymmetry."
"You weren't a nuisance," he continued, his words growing louder in the cold, snowy silence. "You were the Northern Dancer, sire of the century, the superest of all racehorses.
David Arnold
#96. There's a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they might be caused harm. It's called a 'public nuisance.' I wouldn't mind being called that for my life's work.
Vito Acconci
#97. If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are "no account," go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them
Mark Twain
#98. The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.
Lauren Willig
#99. I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?
Montgomery Clift
#100. The nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her
Emily Bronte
