Nuisance Quotes

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
E. M. Forster

Freedom, Past, Enough

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
Emile Zola

Regret, Often, Perfection

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Baruch Spinoza

Reality, May, Become

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
John Stuart Mill

Liberty, Far, Himself

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis

Another, Progress, Call

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Society, Until, Question

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
Plautus

Friend, After, Become

So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.
Frank Carson

Said, Again, British

Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.
Christoph Waltz

Ten, Fantastic, Lights

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers

Human, Become, She

I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.
Andy Grove

Memory, Line, Build

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
Charles Olson

Government, Everybody, Cease

General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.
Henry Villard

Great, War, Career

There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.
Daniel H. Hill

Service, Known, Army

Property is a nuisance.
Paul Erdos

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
Margery Allingham

Cannot, Attention, Command

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.
David Low

Here, Lies, Sanity

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