Quotes about Annoying People

Let these Quotes about Annoying People help you to get a chuckle when you think about those who annoy you. As the Ben Franklin quote below points out, annoying people are generally very self-centered people. To the extent possible, avoid spending time with annoying people; and in any case never let them get your goat.

People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov

Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin

 

I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain

Thinking is what most people resort to after all else fails.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns

People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Half the people you know are below average.
- Anonymous

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain

If you can't annoy somebody with what you write,
I think there's little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis

Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde

I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony

There is no use whatsoever trying to help
people who do not help themselves.
You cannot push anyone up a ladder
unless he is willing to climb himself.
- Andrew Carnegie

Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole

Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
- Don Marquis

Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker

The whole problem with the world is that
fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright

Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett

Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain

People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel

Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain

Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin

Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr

I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer

Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright

Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers

If you're going to tell people the truth,
be funny or they'll kill you.
- Billy Wilder

All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain

In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek

A person is smart. People are dumb,
panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew
the Earth was the center of the universe.
Five hundred years ago,
everybody knew the Earth was flat,
and fifteen minutes ago,
you knew that humans were alone on this planet.
Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
- the movie Men in Black

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde

I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha

Join the army. Visit strange and exotic places.
Meet fascinating people. And kill them.
- Anonymous

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out
in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
- Albert Einstein

The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers

Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You know your god is man-made when he
hates all the same people you do.
- Anonymous

Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston

Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
- Anonymous

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert,
to fleece the people.
- Abraham Lincoln

Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek

Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh

You can safely assume that you've
created God in your own image
when it turns out that God hates
all the same people you do.
- Anne Lamott

People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry

Oh, you weak, beautiful people
who give up with such grace.
What you need is someone to take hold of you -
gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams

Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The church is always trying to get other people to reform;
it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little,
by way of example.
- Mark Twain

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.
I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends
and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that.
That's what's insane about it.
- John Lennon

Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,
people will eventually come to believe it.
- Joseph Goebbels (Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany)

People do not like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller

Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
- William J. Clinton

 

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