Unpleasant

Famous quotes containing the word unpleasant:

“Honest advice is unpleasant to the ears.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

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