Nuisance Quotes - Page 2

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

It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.

Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.

I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.

Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst.

A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

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

Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance.

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.

It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.

My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

Anxiety will bear a lot of nuisance.

[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.