Irritating Quotes
Quotes on small annoyances, awkward moments, and public criticism.
These irritating quotes lean into discomfort with humor, from banjos being oddly irritating instruments to the sting of having flaws pointed out by a Beautiful Girl in one evening.
It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.
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On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.'
A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
America Quotes
We scientists have an obsession with unification, a grand synthesis. And dark matter is an irritating missing piece.
I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.
I find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know.
Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust.
Beautiful Quotes
Pick a theme for your material, and stick to it for the entirety of the piece. The repetition of certain key phrases, however irritating they may sound, will give your set rhythm, and the illusion of structure.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
Beautiful Girl Quotes
This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.
The most irritating movie character for me was that cradle-to-grave commie, Mary Poppins.
I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.
Being Quotes
The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.
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One public figure recalls being called 'irritating' alongside a string of unflattering labels in the press. For more on handling unwanted attention, see Being quotes.
