Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.
What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
When I think of the number of disagreeable people that I know who have gone to a better world, I am sure hell won't be so bad at all.
I don't believe in the goodness of disagreeable people.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.