Top 50 Irritating Quotes

I don’t think you should be allowed to eat in a restaurant if you haven’t waited tables at least once. It’s so irritating when I see people being rude to waiters, like, it makes me want to slit their throats! Like, really? You’re really this inconsiderate?

It’s really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he’s the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don’t like it.

No one thinks they’re irritating. Nobody thinks they’re boring. So if you’re playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that’s been said to me.

Pick a theme for your material, and stick to it for the entirety of the piece. The repetition of certain key phrases, however irritating they may sound, will give your set rhythm, and the illusion of structure.

I am very opinionated and sometimes a very irritating character but, I have learnt that the quest to learn is a journey, not a destination.

I find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know.

Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and years ago, and someone had written a really lovely review except that it made a remark about the way I spoke: ‘A lot of people find her voice terribly irritating.’ Do they? I had no idea.

Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can’t see it, you can’t find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

I’m not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it’s unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I’m not going to get to all the places I want to go.

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don’t let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else’s advertising.

I wanted to do action, and it was a bit irritating when people called me a chocolate boy. I can do other films, too.

As an NBA fan, there is nothing more irritating than when the league’s credibility is challenged by cockamamy conspiracy theories.

I understood something way back when I was on ‘Three’s Company.’ When I got the part, I was flat broke. I was so happy to get the part, but I kept thinking, ‘Ugh – dumb blondes are so irritating; how do I make her likable?’ I think that I achieved that. It took a while for people to realize I was acting.

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

I know how irritating it is when a producer puts his hand in everything.

Ring tones are just irritating, aren’t they?

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

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‘I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love.’ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

It’s really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, ‘I usually don’t like female comedians, but your material is great!’ It makes the job prospect more daunting. Funny is funny, you know?

I’m not meant to run around trees. I can’t throw my arms in the air and sing, I find that boring and irritating. Sweet romcoms are not my cup of tea. The film has to be a little twisted and quirky.

Digital books are still painfully ugly and weirdly irritating to interact with. They look like copies of paper, but they can’t be designed or typeset in the same way as paper, and however splendid the cover images may look on a hi-res screen, they’re still images rather than physical things.

I can’t tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

I’m not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it’s unfair and irritating.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren’t very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

On bikeback, there is a delightful sense of self-direction and autonomy. Lately, I have taken to cycling slowly, more fun than the fast, competitive commuter cycling I used to do. No longer do I jump lights or attempt that irritating wobbling thing that semi-professional cyclists like to indulge in.

Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, ‘Why is this bugger on television?’

The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we’re doing or takes sides when we have fights – it’s more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there’s not a puppet master.

I’m 53. I don’t care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

I am a very choosy guy, sometimes it gets very irritating for composers. If I don’t feel it, then I am not able to perform.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

Did Mad freakin’ Max just call me irritating?

How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!

When I speak English, I’ve been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that’s very irritating. It’s the whole class thing.

Everything you do is about creating an experience in the viewer’s head. If you’re rude or irritating as a performer, then your magic is irritating.

Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust.

So much in L.A. is waiting. It’s so irritating. That’s what’s good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don’t have to sit and wait by your phone. But it is very frustrating.

I’ve never been the kind of guy who finds attention irritating.

There’s always going to be people who will criticize my performance. Sometimes, it gets irritating. Sometimes I just brush it off and say these people don’t know what they are talking about.

Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.

A really irritating thing when you’re watching a film is if somebody’s accent isn’t bang-on – it distracts you from getting into the story because you’re thinking: ‘Where are they from?’

It was irritating to have one’s physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

I’m really terrible with small children; they’re small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

Video piracy is among the most irritating aspects of modern life for those who work in the film business. Adverts telling you not to commit video piracy are among the most irritating aspects of modern life for those who don’t.

I like being irritating.

Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it’s irritating. Also, the original composer needs to be credited properly.

Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You’re in this business for people to know what you do and like it.

There’s lots of bad things about teaching, but the really good thing is that you get to be around young people – irritating as they are.

My brother asked me once, ‘Are you a misanthrope?’ And I said, ‘No, I just find people irritating.’