“The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.”

The Confederacy, Act I, sc ii.

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John Vanbrugh9

English architect and dramatist 1664–1726

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Married By Morning

“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

“I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.”

Frances Burney book Evelina

Letter XIII
Evelina (1778)

“4867. There cannot be a more intolerable Thing than a fortunate Fool.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

“There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women…”

Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer

“There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence.”

Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères

Aphorism 7
Les Caractères (1688), Des Ouvrages de l'Esprit
Context: There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!