Half the unpopularity of people proceeds from a disagreeable manner; and though we may be aware of the good qualities of persons who have this defect, we cannot conceal from ourselves that it must always originate in a want of the desire to please-a want, the evidence of which cannot fail to wound the self-love of those who detect, and indispose them towards those who betray it.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner
The majority of the persons who entered into a circle were ready to believe any extraordinary thing that came to them, and the inanity of the general proceedings, even when fraud was excluded, was sufficient to indispose serious people to take part in them.
"The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I"
William James Stillman
Patience seems to be prudence, in this case; to indispose them, would do no good, and might do harm.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson