When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
quote by Josiah Quincy
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
quote by Henry James
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The Disagreeable Man
If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am:
I'm a genuine philanthropist - all other kinds are sham.
Each little fault of temper and each social defect
In my erring fellow-creatures, I endeavour to correct.
To all their little weaknesses I open people's eyes,
And little plans to snub the self-sufficient I devise;
I love my fellow-creatures - I do all the good I can -
Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
And I can't think why!
To compliments inflated I've a withering reply,
And vanity I always do my best to mortify;
A charitable action I can skilfully dissect;
And interested motives I'm delighted to detect.
I know everybody's income and what everybody earns,
And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns;
But to benefit humanity, however much I plan,
Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
And I can't think why!
I'm sure I'm no ascetic; I'm as pleasant as can be;
You'll always find me ready with a crushing repartee;
I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer,
I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer;
To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two;
I can tell a woman's age in half a minute - and I do -
But although I try to make myself as pleasant as I can,
Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
And I can't think why!
poem by William Schwenck Gilbert
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You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do.
quote by Judith Martin
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To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
quote by Barry Goldwater
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We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.
quote by Christine Gregoire
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
quote by Samuel Johnson
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
quote by Victor Hugo
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It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
quote by William Tecumseh Sherman
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
quote by Benjamin Spock
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There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
quote by Aneurin Bevan
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My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
quote by Winston Churchill
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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.
quote by J. Martin Kohe
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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
quote by John Keats
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The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
quote by Samuel Richardson
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It is quite disagreeable to have your memories written by the clerks of the court.
aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.
quote by George Mason
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Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share.
quote by Edward Burnett Tylor
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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
quote by Samuel Johnson
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