Definition of Nuisance

Nuisance

That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.

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Nuisance Quotations

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
John Stuart Mill

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
Emile Zola

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
Plautus

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Baruch Spinoza

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
E. M. Forster

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis

Property is a nuisance.
Paul Erdos

General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.
Henry Villard

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
Charles Olson

There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.
Daniel H. Hill

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
Margery Allingham

So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.
Frank Carson

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.
David Low

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