#unpleasant

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#best #court #ear #fool #foolish

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her. ↗

— John McCain

#barbara boxer #because #bitterly #boxer #experience

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more. ↗

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

#any #imagining #many #more #pleasant things

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#could #expunge #gladly #him #his

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#i #killers #like #me #movies

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#mind #more #nothing #person #than

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried. ↗

— Charles Hamilton Houston

#problem #race #race problem #rather #refuses

You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant. ↗