What is passable in youth is detestable in later age

“The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true, he was…

— Thomas Paine

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

— Maurice Druon

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable.

— Joseph Conrad

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

— C. S. Lewis

I feel like acts of violence against women are detestable, and they need to be dealt with, and they are important.

— Jason Priestley

“Unless you have been inside a sanitarium you do not know that madmen are made there, just as criminals are made in our reformatories.…

— André Breton

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.

— Tacitus

Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death.

— William Shakespeare

“Oh dear! how unamiable I am when I am with my uncle and aunt," thought Rachel, "thoroughly detestable I may say, and yet when…

— Emily Eden

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being…

— William Ralph Inge

“Tradition is a detestable peddler of errors, to which, alas, the Devil lends a long and tenacious life.”

— Jean Ray

“The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for…

— Jasper Fforde

“He felt crude and detestable”

— William Burroughs Jr

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

— Oscar Wilde

It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.

— Robert Green Ingersoll