#irritate

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#events #great #irritate #make #me

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside. ↗

— Steig Larsson

#anything #been #describe #detective #detective stories

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me. ↗

— Leo Szilard

#cannot #done #effect #experts #irritated

Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#irritate #irritates #joy #lot #me

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#down #got #i #i am #i think

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#american #begin #convenient #critics #imperfections

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#feels #here #i #i am #irritated

It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas. ↗

— Mischa Barton

#also #comes #face #i #irritates

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#heavenly #i #irritates #laziness #me

The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#irritated #me #pace #studied