Quotes of Galling - somelinesforyou

“ Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. ”

- J. M. Synge

“ Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear. ”

- Thomas B. Macaulay

“ Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man theniron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ”

- Don Herold

“ It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else. ”

- John Cage
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