158 Annoyance Quotes

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Famous Annoyance Quotes

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. — Ovid

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. — Mark Twain

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing. — Kingsley Amis

I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy. — Rick Riordan

Annoy your doctor and sickness comes in laughing. — Zimbabwean Proverbs

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov

I am not in a bad mood. Everyone is just.. annoying. — Wiz Khalifa

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it. — Martin Freeman

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. — Elvis Costello

How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh. — H. L. Mencken

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. — Fred A. Allen

It is the truth that irritates a person. — Proverbs

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — W. H. Auden

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. — Edith Summerskill

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying. — William Kunstler

Short Annoyance Quotes

  • Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. — Oscar Wilde
  • There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves. — Andrew Carnegie
  • To get on someone's nerves. — French Proverbs
  • Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. — Elsa Schiaparelli
  • You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you. — Robert Anton Wilson
  • When I draw something, the incredibly annoying thing is that it doesn't come out like I pictured. — Akira Toriyama
  • Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French. — Charles De Gaulle
  • If you want to annoy the devil stay silent. — Bulgarian Proverbs
  • He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels — Henri Michaux
  • Corpses and annoying guests stink by the third day — Mexican Proverbs

Annoyance Image Quotes

Annoyance quote Be happy. It really annoys negative people.
Be happy. It really annoys negative people.

Love And Annoyance Quotes

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time. — John Green

Family rules? We only have one rule in our house, and that's 'Don't Be Annoying' — Daisy Waugh

I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Annoyance quote Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. — P. J. O'Rourke

It wasn‟t even desire. It was far more than that. It was love. Love. With a capital L and swirly script and hearts and flowers and whatever else the angels— and yes, all those annoying little cupids—wished to use for embellishment. — Julia Quinn

Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us. — Bruno Bettelheim

Annoyance quote I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

I had passed on from life, from the world of struggles and hardship and big fat women with annoying laughs, and entered a glorious new existence of utter peace, and joy, and love. And then some git brought me back to life — Yahtzee Croshaw

I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much. — Jonah Hill

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with. — Graham Norton

I was in love with Darth Vader. He was extremely sexy to me. Once I had almost a sexual dream about Darth Vader. At the moment he was about to pull his helmet off, my husband woke me up and I was so annoyed. I told him, "I was on my way to kiss Darth Vader." — Marjane Satrapi

No Annoyance Quotes

Let's try not to be exacting with other people, but rather to pass over in silence those thousand little annoyances that tend to irritate us. For we know that no one is perfect in this life, and we must put up with the defects of others as they put up with ours. — Rose Philippine Duchesne

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. — Elizabeth Taylor

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. I’m not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with. No compromises, let’s put it this way. Compromises are from hell. — Mads Mikkelsen

To me, it's always a joy to create music no matter what it takes to actually get there. The real evils are always whatever stops you from doing that - like if your CPU is spiking and you have to sit there and bounce all your MIDI to audio. Now that's annoying! — Skrillex

If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything is lost. You have to reorientate yourself quickly and find a new plan in the new situation. — David Bronstein

I’m super annoying, I’m the kind of guy that if there’s no recycling bins around I hoard plastic bottles, put them in my bag and I bring them home. If I can afford it I want to put solar panels in. — Darren Criss

My father always told us that if we will let God, He can use even our disappointements, even our annoyances to bring us a blessing. There's a practical way to start the process too: by thanking HIm for whatever happens, no matter how disagreeable it seems. — Catherine Marshall

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you. — Oscar Wilde

Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die. — Anne Enright

His Annoyance Quotes

A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. — Robert A. Heinlein

The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions. — Benjamin Graham

We shall take great care not to annoy the horse and spoil his friendly charm, for it is like the scent of a blossom - once lost it will never return — Antoine de Pluvinel

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days. — Plautus

He who believes in God and the Last Day should honour his guest; he who believes in God and the Last Day should not annoy his neighbours; and he who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep silent. — Elijah Muhammad

If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases. — Grace Coolidge

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license. — P. J. O'Rourke

I turned and found Dionysus standing there, still in his black suit. Walk with me,” he said. Where to?” I asked suspiciously. Just to the campfire,” he said. “I was beginning to feel better, so I thought I would talk with you a bit. You always manage to annoy me.” Uh, thanks. — Rick Riordan

I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would have. A part of me died with him, a part of him lives with me. — Eduardo Galeano

When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony; but when the same happened in England, the monarch declared : "We are not amused". — George Mikes

Movie Quotes

If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew. — Pocahontas

As they say in Corsica... Goodbye! — Gene Wilder

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple — Gene Wilder

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. — J. K. Rowling

I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — John Hughes

You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed? - Wyatt Earp

You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed? — Wyatt Earp

See, ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody. — Frank Lucas

The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room. — Frank Lucas

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. — J. K. Rowling

Wise Quotes

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself — Rumi

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. — Charles Spurgeon

A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. — Rumi

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. - Claude Levi-Strauss

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. — Claude Levi-Strauss

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. - Albert Einstein

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. — Albert Einstein

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. — Helen Rowland

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything. - African Proverbs

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything. — African Proverbs

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. — Albert Schweitzer

Being Annoyed Quotes

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. — Rita Rudner

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment. — Paul Theroux

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. — Robert W. Service

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish. — James Patterson

Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of. — Charlaine Harris

The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got their priorities wrong. They're just doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it. — Aphex Twin

He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from the jungle were primitive, Hitler said with a shrug; their physiques were stronger than those of civilized whites and hence should be excluded from future games. — Albert Speer

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. — William Osler

My mom let me kind of run free and be rowdy. She encouraged it. I'm a youngest child. So I was spazzy and trying to be funny to my older sisters. It's kind of my role in the family - tension reliever. I was funny or annoying, depending on your perspective. — Andy Samberg

Annoying People Quotes

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. — Oscar Wilde

Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?' 'But we do that every day!' 'Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?' — Jim Gaffigan

We met a people who loved it when it was said to them “Fear Allah the most high!“. Today you find people become annoyed at this. — Sufyan al-Thawri

That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining. — Marc Maron

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging. — Jonathan Davis

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor. — Rose Macaulay

Some people said I was annoying, but now look how far we've come. — The Miz

There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible. — Auberon Waugh

Be happy. It really annoys negative people. — Ricky Gervais

Annoying Things Quotes

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us. — Marcus Aurelius

It still annoys me when I read really derogatory things about how a woman looks because you would usually not read these things about a man, and that still has the potential to put women off public life. — Nicola Sturgeon

It begins when you believe that you are the center of the universe, that good things happen because you’ve earned them and bad things happen just to annoy you. And that’s the furthest thing from the truth. — Mo Gawdat

When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain — Richey Edwards

Only a few things are really important. — Marie Dressler

Also ... the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do. — Rick Riordan

I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people that's annoying. I like weird stuff. I always hoped if we had a big success it would be on our own terms. — Julian Casablancas

Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory. — Jim Butcher

At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world. — P. J. O'Rourke

All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right. — Cathy Guisewite

Bothersome Quotes

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts. — C. S. Forester

You know why you are doing something. And if it is against your life, your principles and ideals it is bothersome. And no one wants to be bothered. So you conveniently try to curtain it off, turn a blind eye, and put it out of sight so that it won't bother you. This is what the Mind does. — Chidananda Saraswati

My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. — Fernando Pessoa

It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity. — Nastassja Kinski

Nothing is more bothersome to me than retiring. Weird things happen when you disengage; first you get negative, then you start telling people about your latest surgeries, and eventually you lose touch. I want to stay in touch. — Charles R. Swindoll

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail. — Gregory Benford

When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use to "get their man." Constitutional guarantees are regarded as bothersome "technicalities" that impede honest law enforcers in the performance of their duties. — Donna Woolfolk Cross

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More Annoyance Quotes

Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat. — Alex Cox

If you're going to play the bargaining game, you just need to make the other side mad. You want them to get a little annoyed. Then you know that you've come in with a good price. — Chris Voss

Earrings are the same as sneezes: Two is okay, but ten in a row is annoying. If you have two then, God bless you. — Demetri Martin

Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours. — William Cowper

The only difference between a salesperson and a marketer is the first person is annoying, and the second one is amazing. — Russell Brunson

Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh? — Brandon Sanderson

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code? — Doug Coupland

FUD is annoying, but makes you stronger. — Changpeng Zhao

Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed. — John D. Rockefeller

Pharmaceutical companies are very annoyed with niacin because their products have to compete with it. Some of their cholesterol-lowering drugs cost up to $150 a month while niacin costs about $10. — Abram Hoffer

A know-it-all is a person who knows everything except for how annoying he is. — Demetri Martin

Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence. — Harvey Penick

I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying. — Kristen Stewart

I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck. — Jim Parsons

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