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Definition of Nuisance
Nuisance

That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.

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Nuisance Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

Property is a nuisance.
Paul Erdos

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

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

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

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


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