“It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.”

“Does no one think to warn people before they meet me?" Vlad muttered, shooting an irritable look at Mencheres.”

“One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.”

“The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them he uses the irritation to do the lovelist thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but…make a pearl.-In the Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. Wallis”

“She was irritated, briefly, by the thought that she might be becoming more mature. Why should she become a better person when no one else did?”

“Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.”