Irritated Quotes:

I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

- Ariel Gore

topic: New Relationship, Irritated, New Friends, Chit Chat, Making New Friends

Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative.

- Barack Obama

topic: Cutting, Thinking, Irritated

When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

- Brian Ferneyhough

topic: Consistency, Irritated, Problem, Lengthy, Homogeneity

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

- Catherine Deneuve

topic: Bored, Stressed, Irritated

It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.

- Dario Argento

topic: Fans, Irritated

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

- Edith Wharton

topic: Discovery, Irritated, Consequence

The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.

- Emanuel Celler

topic: Pace, Irritated, My Family

I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.

- Francoise Sagan

topic: Discovery, Irritated, Vulnerable

Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant.

- Gelett Burgess

topic: Bored, Action, Irritated, Being Bored, Indignant

My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.

- GG Allin

topic: Waiting, Pennies, Irritated

When you are calm, quiet and sensitive then you can expand. But when you are irritated, phobic, fearful, insensitive, and neurotic, you can't achieve anything.

- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

topic: Inspirational, Irritated, Calm

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

- Henry Adams

topic: History, Fleas, Irritated

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

- Horace

topic: Irritation, Wish, Irritated

I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.

- Howard Stern

topic: People, Lightning, Irritated

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

- James Bryant Conant

topic: Irritated, Behavior, Surface, Below The Surface

People only call you 'my dear' when they are irritated with you.

- Jean Kerr

source: Jean Kerr (1982). “Lunch hour”, Doubleday

topic: People, Irritated, Dear

Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?

- Joe Pesci

topic: Mad, Max, Irritated

When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.

- Kerry King

topic: Home, Writing, Irritated

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

- Leo Szilard

topic: Experts, Done, Irritated

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

- Lev Shestov

topic: Atheism, Belief, Irritated, Deviation

People get really irritated by mental illness.

- Maria Bamford

source: "Stand-up Comedy and Mental Illness: A Conversation with Maria Bamford". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. May 10, 2012.

topic: People, Irritated, Mental Illness

You get irritated when I say I'm not angry and you get irritated when I say I am angry. I can't win." "Because you just saying whatever you think will shut me up," he accused me. "Aye, but it's not working." "Argh!" was his response, and he charged on down the street.

- Moira J. Moore

source: Moira J. Moore (2006). “The Hero Strikes Back”, p.72, Penguin

topic: Winning, Thinking, Irritated, Saying Whatever

Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

- Pema Chodron

topic: Feelings, Irritated, Hopeless

In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.

- Robert Smith

topic: People, Needs, Irritated, Irritating People

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

- Trent Reznor

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Shy, Irritated, Aloof

This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.

- Victoria Beckham

topic: Irritated, Hell, Wells

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Differences, Taste, Irritated, Funny Best Friend, Triviality

Some people do get nervous about cooking for me, others just get extremely irritated by my interfering.

- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

source: Source: www.mirror.co.uk

topic: People, Cooking, Irritated

There was that moment of, "Oh, my parents are watching Columbo and I hate it" to "No, I love this show, too." And I feel like, for me, that was around 11 or 12, where I could actually join my parents in their viewing and wasn't so irritated that they were always watching Columbo.

- June Diane Raphael

topic: Hate, Parent, Irritated

When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

- Michael Snow

topic: Names, Littles, Irritated

You can see when that happens with bands when they do TV appearances; they just shut down. They get really irritated.

- Jancee Dunn

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Band, Tvs, Irritated

When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity!

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll (2015). “Symbolic Logic: {Complete & Illustrated}”, p.10, eKitap Projesi

topic: Self, Stupidity, Irritated

Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.

- Paul Gauguin

source: Paul Gauguin (1985). “Noa Noa: the Tahitian journal”, Dover Pubns

topic: Essentials, Faces, Irritated

I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.

- Frank Zappa

topic: People, Irritated, Enjoy

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.

- Louise Erdrich

topic: Here I Am, Irritated, Feels

I think about what movie I would like to see. I don't think of them as a correction or palliative. I certainly am irritated by anything that's shot in the Midwest and filled with these noble people. "Oh, they're so good, and they're so honest..." I'm not interested in that. I just think of what's right for a movie.

- Alexander Payne

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Thinking, People, Irritated

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

- Tacitus

topic: Abuse, Criticism, Irritated, Emotional Abuse

I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.

- R. C. Sproul

source: Twitter post from Aug 12, 2015

topic: Jesus, Lying, Irritated

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

- John Lydon

topic: Nice, Irritated, Joyous

And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.

- Gustave Flaubert

topic: Hate, Personality, Irritated

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

- Victor Hugo

source: Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

topic: Men, May, Irritated

The man irritated her just like a rash.

- Julie Garwood

source: Julie Garwood (2010). “Honor's Splendour”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

topic: Men, Irritated

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

- Mignon McLaughlin

source: Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.25, BookBaby

topic: Hypocrisy, Fool, Irritated, Rascals

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Tears, Genius, Irritated, Juggling

The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: People, Irritated, Following

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

- Emile M. Cioran

source: "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

topic: Ruins, Irritated, Appetite

If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. -

- Epictetus

topic: Irritated, Remember, Judgment

I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Pain, Arms, Irritated, Love And Pain

Alec looked merely irritated by this comment. "The only way you could raise enough money to hire Magnus by selling lemonade is if you put meth in it.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

topic: Way, Irritated, Enough

I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl."

- Oprah Winfrey

source: Source: www.aarp.org

topic: Girl, Church, Irritated, Third Grade