Unpleasant

Famous quotes containing the word unpleasant:

“Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly and ... more irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

“Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.”
—W.R. (William Ralph)

“... one’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find depreciated.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)