Unpleasant Quotes

I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

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.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past.

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.