Pet Peeves Quotes

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

One of my pet peeves, one of my obsessions, is litter.

how can a little thing be so annoying?

There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When you go in someone’s house, and next to the toilet they have a huge basket of magazines, I find that repellent. I recommend against straining while reading.

I started keeping track of my pet peeves and so far have counted over 160... but to pick one: muffins. They're imposters. They think they're breakfast food, but really, they are just terrible cupcakes.

One of my pet peeves about biblical epics was that the characters' costumes always looked like they're just out of the dry cleaners.

It's always amazing to me the idiosyncrasies people end up disliking others for.

Why does a writer labor over nuance and context if it won't be respected, if a critic insists on ignoring the writing at hand in favor of a more convenient analysis of his or her own particular pet peeves and straw men?

I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation.

I hate that word, 'quirky.' It's like the worst f - king word in the world.

Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also off-putting; it's one of my pet hates.

I love Cee Lo, but I avoid him when he's holding that smelly cat.

We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.

Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is.

Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.