[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians…

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

— Hilaire Belloc

“Strange as it may seem, not all of the great mathematicians have been professors in colleges or universities. Quite a few were soldiers by…

— Eric Temple Bell

...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own…

— James Jeans

Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from the…

— Keith Devlin

Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness…

— Jasper Fforde

The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in…

— Martin Luther

Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.

— Woody Allen

DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here.

— William Cobbett

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing…

— Peter Tosh

Tomato and lettuce-especially lettuce-is an abomination.

— Mimi Sheraton

An unholy church! It is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hells laughter, heavens abhorrence. The…

— Charles Spurgeon

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon…

— Joseph Conrad

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

“The fascination of the abomination—you know.”

— Joseph Conrad