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 CohenI have been uncompromising, peppery, infractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile and offtimes disagreeable. I suppose I`m larger than life.
- Bette DavisMy 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 ChurchillOf all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
- Samuel JohnsonTo predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
- Friedrich NietzscheWhen you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
- Adam DouglasDon`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.
- Addison MiznerYou will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
- Ahmed BedierIf you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
- Al PhillipsWe may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.
- Alan JohnstonThere are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don`t destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
- Alan ShawThat 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.
- Alex KrollI wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.
- Alex MaskeyIt`s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
- Andrew SalnerIt`s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
- Ann SwearingenTelephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
- Ambrose Bierce'¦a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called '˜critical philosophy' and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term '˜philosopher'.
- Alfred KorzybskiDon`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