(194 quotes found)
“I cannot say that I do not disagree with you”
Groucho Marx
“Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree”
Terry Pratchett
“If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also to deny under oath that I ever said it”
Tom Lehrer
“I'm not the one who was elected." Although she disagreed with her husband on a lot of issues," she emphasized, "I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.”
Laura Bush
“The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency”
Elihu Root
“To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.”
Barry Goldwater
“The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.”
Lord Chesterfield
“If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along -- whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.”
Bernard Meltzer
“Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.”
William S. Burroughs
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