Unpleasant

Famous quotes containing the word unpleasant:

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

    Beluthahatchee is a country where all unpleasant doings and sayings are forgotten, a land of forgiveness and forgetfulness. When a woman accusingly reminds her man of something in the past, he replies, ‘I thought that was in Beluthahatchee.’ Or a person may say to another, to dismiss some matter, “Oh, that’s in Beluthahatchee.’
    —For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Honest advice is unpleasant to the ears.
    Chinese proverb.