"Unpleasantness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... opposition becomes for them a catastrophe. The smallest unpleasantness presents itself to them in the light of ...
— Poise: How to Attain It • D. Starke
... word from her would wipe out all the unpleasantness which my family had contrived to make Swann feel since his marriage. She found an opportunity to draw him aside for a moment. But I followed her: I could not bring myself to let her go out of reach of me ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust
... breadth of old Ireland, if 'twas in the Four Courts themselves, and all the garrison round you, you'd be on honour, Colonel, to take no advantage. But here it would not be the cold shoulder and a little unpleasantness, and a meeting or two on the ground, that's neither here nor there—that you'd be like to taste. I'd not be knowing what would happen if it went about that you were ousting them that had the right, and you a ...
— The Wild Geese • Stanley John Weyman
... much obliged to you," said I. "You've saved me from a deal of foolish unpleasantness. From the way you handled the old gentleman I should guess you to be ...
— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke
... which are not to the advantage of the individual but to the object or objects of his sympathy, exact more or less laborious efforts, courage in the face of danger, etc. They thus provoke an internal struggle between the sentiment of sympathy and egoism, or the unpleasantness of undertaking things which are troublesome and disagreeable for the individual himself. From this struggle between two opposed series of sentiments is derived a third group of complex or mixed sentiments, that of duty, or moral ...
— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel
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