WIST Quotations

Dumas, Alexandre pere -- The Black Tulip [La Tulipe Noire], ch. 28 (1850)

Dave — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:08:09 +0000

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.

Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870) French novelist and dramatist
The Black Tulip [La Tulipe Noire], ch. 28 (1850)

Dave — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:23:33 +0000

It is not written in the stars that I will always understand what is going on — a truism that I often find damnably annoying.

Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Friday [Friday Jones] (1982)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
The Tragedy of Pudd’n’head Wilson, ch. 19, epigraph (1894)