#disagreeable

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. ↗

— Criss Jami

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We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

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Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

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You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy. ↗

— William John Wills

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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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