Better be disagreeable in a sort than altogether insipid. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise - a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow. [ Thackeray ]

A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment. [ Pliny ]

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime. [ Ruskin ]

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man, disagreeable. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition. [ From the French ]

Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable. [ Horne ]

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable. [ La Rochefoucauld ]