Annoyance Quotes

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

“I like long walks, especialy when they are taken by people who annoy me.”
― Noel Coward

“Jessamine flushed. "I do not. I mean, I did not. I mean--ugh! Charlotte, Will's being vexing."
"And the sun has come up in the east," said Jem, to no one in particular.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.”
― Alain de Botton

“And then, in boating supplies, Margo located an air horn. She took it out of the box and held it up in the air, and I said, "No," and she said, "No what?" And I said, "No don't blow the air horn," except when I got to the b in blow, she squeezed on it and it let out an excruciatingly loud honk that felt in my head like the auditory equivalent of an aneurysm, and then she said, "I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you. What was that?" And I said, "Stop b-" and then she did it again.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

“I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.”
― Whoopi Goldberg

“A knock came at the door. Everyone looked up. Elena's nostrils flared and she leaned over to whisper something to Clay.

"Fuck," he muttered. "Keep talking, Jaime. It's only Cassandra. She can wait. Forever, if we're lucky."

"I heard that, Clayton," Cassandra said as she walked in.

"Who the hell forgot to lock the door?" Clay said.

"You were the last one in," Elena murmured.

"Damn.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Industrial Magic

“George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her.
Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown against the view.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?”
― Vera Nazarian

“Everything I said he agreed with, which was trying, and his flute playing would make the deaf wince, but I think the real problem with Hyacinth was that he reminded me of myself. He read poetry. He flinched at loud noises. In addition to having no musical skills, he had no martial skills. He avoided any situation that might require physical effort on his part. Seeing him, I found it no wonder that my father despised me.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings

“No matter how hard we try to separate, and if eventually we finally separate, we are just fooling around thinking we had parted, yet our hearts dwells where we cowardly believed we had left.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“I don't like this."
"I know you don't, my little spaetzel. But I am too worn out to run from both the police and your murderous twin, and Damian's looking peaky, plus Christian did apologize for trying to kill us earlier."
"I wasn't talking about that. It's your lamentable habit of using completely unsuitable love names for me that gives me grief," Adrian groused. "I am not a lambypie, nor am I a spaetzel.”
― Katie MacAlister, Sex, Lies and Vampires

“Will that be all?” I asked the pimply faced teen who ogled my exposed legs as if in heat. My pen tapped impatiently on the notepad while I waited for him to look up.
Slowly his dull grey eyes roved over my body and a limp smile drew up his thin, crusted lips making him look more weasel than human.
“Yep. That’d be it,” his cheerful, adolescent voice cracked.
“Great,” I mumbled, walking back behind the counter.”
― Brandi Salazar, Faerie Tales: The Misfortune of a Teenage Socialite

“Our own flaws infuriate us in other people.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“Smartass Disciple: Master, that guy’s teaching is somehow annoying me.
Master of Stupidity: Only as long as you stay tuned for pissed-off channel.”
― Toba Beta

“Don't allow little things to annoy you. At best, you are poisoning your soul. At worst, you are poisoning everyone around you.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“That irked the crap out of him, but maybe that's just what happens when you get old. Everything's so damned irksome.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The Water Museum

“A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“For many, God is the greatest annoyance because He has the answers for which we have no answer.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I wondered if God found people like me annoying, those who turned to prayer only when they were neck-deep, that terrible friend we've all had.”
― Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

“Keep in mind that what injures you is not people who are rude or agressive but your opinion that they are injuring you. So whenever someone provokes you, be aware that the provocation really comes from your own judgment. Start, then, by trying not to get carried away by the impression. Once you pause and give yourself time, you will more easily control yourself.”
― Epictetus, How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life

“Go back to bed!" He ordered, his eyebrows arched. He came towards me and snatched the bag out of my hand. I would have tried to take it back, if he wouldn't have stuck his hand inside the bag and taken a chip out. I scowled at him before I slid off the stool and walked slowly back to the tube that would take me back to my dorm room.”
― Bin Userkaf, Itchikan: 'til death do us part'

“It's time to piss off the shippers.”
― Laika Constantino

“Agent Shelan wondered if it would really hurt diplomatic relations with the Klingon Empire all that much if she tossed Korath, Son of Monak, into an antimatter reactor. Surely if anyone would recognize homicide as a valid response to intolerable annoyance, it would be the Klingons.”
― Christopher L. Bennett, Watching the Clock

“Being annoyed by anything is an anesthetic to grace and goodness. Instead, let
annoyance be love that kisses you with broken lips. Only your tenderness toward it is its
balm.”
― John de Ruiter

“The most unexpected provocation is unprovoked.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Underneath all their deserved frustration with the mongoose is often the sort of love one might have for the black sheep of one’s family, a kind of He may be obnoxious, but he is ours.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“I never knew how much I would miss the annoyance they stirred in me. Once they are gone, you can only reminisce the feeling of agitation they evoked to you in the moment. Now with their absence, the small acts of bother they used to bring makes me miss them even more. Acknowledging the places they once were, tears begin to erupt in my eyes as these moments combust in my mind.”
― Michelle Kass

“This, with the kid gloves of gentility white libs always use when they want to make your annoyance feel unreasonable. The flop-sweating jargon invoked to signal their literacy on the subject of your existence. That fart holding wince when they sense their good intentions going unrewarded.”
― Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection