#disagreeable

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#disagreeable #had #i #i tried #last

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#thing #whipped

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

— Aneurin Bevan

#consequently #disagreeable #duty #made #reading

You can die trying to get along with a disagreeable man,” she said, and I put a star beside it when I wrote it down and then taped it to the rear-view mirror for the rest of the drive. She hadn’t said “abusive,” I noticed; she had said that just disagreeable could kill you. ↗

— Debby Bull

#killing #marriage #love

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man. ↗

— George Berkeley

#disagreeable #entered #eternal #ever #head

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. ↗

— John Keats

#capable #disagreeable #evaporate #every #excellency

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

— Benjamin Spock

#become #competitive #disagreeable #encouraged #many

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.

#enemies #friendship #friendship

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#disagreeable

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. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#become #come #courtesy #disagreeable #flatter