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“What do you want?" Sophronia was moved to exasperation. "Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves.”

Men Want Seeing Fashion Missing Moved Calves Stockings Exasperation

Book:The Finishing School Complete Collection

Source: The Finishing School Complete Collection

“It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did.”

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Book:Diane Arbus: revelations

Source: Diane Arbus: revelations

“We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.”

Mother Views Daughter Awe Mixtures Irritation Exasperation

Author:Anne Robinson

“Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.”

Decision Exhaustion Exasperation

Author:Barber Conable

“We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.”

Long Certain Hurt Views Scene Solutions Okay Circles Certainty Momentum Police Officer Robbers Robbery Exasperation Armed Robbery

Author:Jeff Cooper

“We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?”

Death Literature Suicide Guarantees Afterlife Guarantees That Exasperation

Book:Three plays by Noel Coward: Blithe spirit, Hay fever [and] Private lives

Source: Three plays by Noel Coward: Blithe spirit, Hay fever [and] Private lives

“I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.”

States Average Collapse Fury Annoyed Exasperation Prostration Being Annoyed

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic love affair, with as much turmoil, frustration, exasperation and need as a forbidden liaison.”

Needs Art Passion Art Is Affair Intense Frustration Hobbies Forbidden Love Affair Turmoil Ecstatic Exasperation Liaison Ecstatic Love

Author:Sarah Lacy

“Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.”

Two Whole Lying Fighting Next Mystery Towns Caught Liars Worms Lectures Drains Exasperation Quads

Author:William Archibald Spooner

“It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.”

Wells Body Hate Known Produce Despair Depression Negative Rage Frustration Panic Well Known Exasperation

Author:Norman Cousins

“The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.”

World Jobs House Exciting Hardest Editors Publishing Exasperation Publishing House

Author:John Hall Wheelock

“No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.”

Men Way Mean Able Natural Bottom Injustice Selfishness Length Obscure Contests Exaggerated Exasperation

Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.”

Men Quiet Mass Live Life Exasperation

Book:The province of the heart

Source: The province of the heart