49 Quotes About Being Annoyed

Annoyance is a worthwhile trait when practiced with intent and unbiasness. Sometimes we may unintentionally annoy another. Knowing the power of your behavior will encourage you to engage more appropriately. These quotes about being annoyed offer the perfect inspiration.

“Annoying people with no class at all should stay far away from computers!”

“Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.”

“Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.”

“Don’t invite annoying people into your life, and set ground rules for the ones you inherited.”

“I don’t do interviews at home any more because my wife doesn’t like having her taste in interiors put through the mill. And I get annoyed when journalists make snide remarks about the annoyingly pretentious shops in the neighbourhood – because I hate them just as much.”

“I don’t hate you, you’re just the most annoying person in my life.”

“I don’t like boys. They’re kind of annoying.”

“I don’t really have any traits that I deplore. I get annoyed with myself sometimes, but that’s about it.”

“I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.”

“I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.”

“I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn’t theirs.”

“I hate when someone wants to ask me a question, I ask them what it is, then they’re like ‘nevermind’.”

“I know nothing more annoying when people I don’t know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.”

“I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that.”

“I love my last-minute lifestyle because I just sort of don’t have plans, and things kind of happen. Plans make me annoyed a little bit, personally. I’m not the most prompt, on-time person.”

“I think people who lack humility are really annoying.”

“I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn’t do it, and that really annoyed me.”

“I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She’s selfish, she’s childish, she’s immature and because I’m doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times.”

“If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.”

“If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that’s obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that’s honey.”

“I’m always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else’s contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we’re demons.”

“In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There’s salt if you don’t have salt; you can knock at someone’s door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed.”

“In my life outdoors, I’ve observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten.”

“In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.”

“It is really irritating to work with irritating people.”

“It’s like there’s some unwritten rule that if you’re mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don’t really get that annoyed about it.”

“It’s not annoying if only a couple of people come up. If a bunch of them crowd around me, it’s annoying.”

“I’ve found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.”

“Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they’re annoying as hell.”

“My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.”

“My mind wanders terribly. I’m not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn’t help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration – lots of it.”

“My sons and I thoroughly enjoy Legos. We go to the toy store every week for more. I never want to take what we build apart; I want to put it on a shelf. My wife is starting to get a little annoyed with the Legos lying around.”

“Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he’s overcharging you.”

“People who annoy people; they are the luckiest people in the world.”

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

“People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.”

“Some people are like clouds. When they disappear, it’s a brighter day.”

“Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.”

“Some people have so little going on in their lives, they would rather discuss yours.”

“Some people just don’t get that I’ll rather talk to a wall than them.”

“The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.”

“The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.”

“The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.”

“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.”

“There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.”

“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.”

“Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.”

“You get annoyed about things in real life, and then the tragic thing is that while you are moaning on the awful injustice and suffering of something, something grimly comic will then strike you about it, like a parasite feeding off the misery of the world.”

Sometimes understanding the effects of your annoying behavior will help you to stop offending others.