Hostile Interactions Quotes

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.

I enjoyed harassing tram conductors.

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

Not everyone is nice and good to work with or grateful for the experience.

General Montgomery is the most irritating man I ever met. I have an idea that he might irritate the Germans even more however.

There are too many organisations - and the BBC is a fabulous organisation - that seem to think it's OK to badger, hector and threaten people.

Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch

If someone writes something shitty and you actually address them, most of the time they're just like, "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm a big fan." And they're really nice people. When you're on the Internet, it's people's first instinct to just go after people.

Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.

I've run into women who can be highly problematic, detrimental, and mean, just like I've seen that in men.

I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did.

Senator Ted Cruz is a man who could alienate Mother Teresa in less than 35 seconds.

As the 2016 campaign has graphically illustrated, Trump doesn't treat rivals gently. Testifying before a congressional committee in 1993, he began with his rote protestations of friendship.

The atmosphere in the newsroom could be pretty poisonous. When I arrived, the people who worked on the 'Six' were sitting there slagging off what had gone out on the 'One.' I thought: 'What is this place? And what are you saying about me?'

Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company.

I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.