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  • Anytime I can get either of them really laughing, I immediately pull out a pad of paper write the joke down, regardless of where we are or what we're doing. I must be absolutely insufferable.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

    Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books
  • You’ve only had a small glimpse of how insufferable and annoying I can be. As the older brother, it’s my birthright.

    Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Magic Study”, p.285, Harlequin
  • My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

    Freedom   Agony   White  
    Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.183, Open Road Media
  • Try walking the halls of Congress. It's Abercrombie & Fitch meets the Hair Club for Men. Lots of really photogenic young people kissing up to lots of insufferable blowhards. Separated by one or two generations, most of these players have only one real thing in common: They have never been weaned from the public teat. The closest they've ever come to meeting a payroll is when they come together to spend everyone else's payroll taxes.

    Real   Kissing   Player  
  • So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

    Love   Failure   Thinking  
    "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.
  • The word 'conservative' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.

    Home   Sunset   Views  
    The Independent, February 24, 1990.
  • When you're "East Coast" person, you are so insufferable, and you have no idea. And I was. One, because I was miserable, and nobody liked to be around a miserable person, and two, everything that I thought was so profound, everyone had already dealt with.

    Ideas   Two   Profound  
    Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 4, 2007.
  • Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

    Struggle   Men   Anxiety  
    Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.66, Open Road Media
  • If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.

    Attitude   Pride   Ideas  
    Bruce McCall (1999). “Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada”, Vintage
  • From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.

    "The Past Through Tomorrow" by Robert A. Heinlein, G. P. Putnam Inc., (p. 431), 1967.
  • When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and lay it on as plainly as we can speak, and tell them of their sin, and shame, and misery: and we expect, not only that they should bear all patiently, but take all thankfully, and we have good reasons for all this; and most that I deal with do take it patiently... But if we speak to a godly minister against his errors or any sin... if it be not more an applause than a reprehension, they take it as an injury almost insufferable.

    Godly   Men   Errors  
    "Gildas Salvianus; the Reformed Pastor: Shewing the Nature of the Pastoral Work". Book by Richard Baxter, 1656.
  • I started appreciating and valuing different things. Some things just became insufferable to me, and not just literature. I used to like horror movies and now I couldn't stand them.

    "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.
  • You could be a gambler. A thief, for all I know. Besides—” He captured her hand and stopped her from walking on, holding her in place. “Besides what, you insufferable prude?” “Prude, eh? Do you need another kiss to remind you what a prude I am?” “Don’t you dare.” “Then don’t call me names.” “You started it.

    Kissing   Hands   Names  
  • Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.

    Russell Baker (1990). “There's a country in my cellar”, William Morrow & Company
  • We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

    Failure   Grace   Style  
  • Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

  • I'm quite insufferable about fitness, I suppose. I think it's really important, though I'm not a body nut.

    Source: us.hellomagazine.com
  • Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

  • Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

    Silly   Opportunity   Men  
    Joseph Addison (2010). “Addison's Essays”, p.133, Wildside Press LLC
  • I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.

    Years   Twenties   Looks  
    Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.69, Penguin
  • Indomitable in victory, insufferable in defeat.

  • I've been accused of being pretentious and insufferable, and I don't really know what I can say about that. I never got good grades in school, but I did read the dictionary for fun. That was just the kind of stuff that I liked to do. I can't apologize for that.

    Fun   School   Stuff  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

    Men   Evil   Cures  
  • Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.50
  • A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

    Gratitude   Men   Two  
  • My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me and I'm very grateful I can still make a living from it.

  • He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

    Mother   Memorable   Men  
  • The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.

    Real   Cat   Air  
    P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

    "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.
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