Unpleasant

Famous quotes containing the word unpleasant:

“The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master’s ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

“When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)