Top 27 Vexatious Quotes
#1. Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.
Norm MacDonald
#2. Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.
John Tillotson
#3. The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy.
Richard M. Weaver
#4. Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#5. The Welsh were a god-cursed, stiff-necked, and utterly vexatious people, John said bitterly, but they did have an inexplicable ability to rise phoenixlike from the ashes of defeat, to soar upwards on wings too scorched for flight.
Sharon Kay Penman
#6. It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.
Roger L'Estrange
#7. Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.
Anton Chekhov
#8. You great bloody bully."
"Which is exactly what you need, you vexatious headstrong wench.
Lynn Kurland
#9. It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#10. Why does the brave druskelle Matthias Helvar eat no meat? 'Tis a sad story indeed, my child. His teeth were winnowed away by a vexatious Grisha, and now he can eat only pudding.
Leigh Bardugo
#11. One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
Daniel Boone
#12. Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#13. To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, and to long for nothing more than simply to sleep
how clean, how pure, the mere thought of it is exhilarating.
Osamu Dazai
#14. It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
Plutarch
#15. There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.
Samuel
#16. Mr. Heathcliff and his man climbed the cellar stairs with vexatious phlegm.
Emily Bronte
#19. If you can orbit the planet, why can't you see
what makes the human heart happy?
Is it art or is it sex?
Or is it, as I suspect, just keeping going
from next thing to next thing
to next thing to next thing
to next to next to next to next
pulsating stupidly to outlast time?
Dan Chiasson
#20. To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
William James
#21. He wondered if this was what people were doing - were they making dinners with their family, holding babies, recounting days? Was this what life was like for them? Albie's
Ann Patchett
#22. I like pessimists. They're always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.
Lisa Kleypas
#23. She's Beautiful."
[His] chest rose and fell a few times before he wiped a bloody hand across his mouth...
"She is, and she's going to taste divine.
M. Stratton
#24. Sage was right behind her and when she passed by Creed's chair he reached out and touched her arm.
She stopped and looked down at him quizzically.
"You sure look pretty this morning," he said.
Carolyn Brown
#25. Passion in life ... is life. It's contagious. Get naked and roll around in it.
People who enjoy living have it all figured out.
They are passionate, driven, alive, and they are real.
Lorii Myers
#26. When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every sport. I would be playing soccer, and I'd be in the middle of the field just zoned out, biting my nails, and I'd, like, miss the ball going past me.
Kendall Jenner
#27. To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.
Regina Brett
