Life is some kind of loathsome hag who is forever…

I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.

— Albert Einstein

A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume…

— King James I

I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.

— Ben Affleck

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.

— William Shakespeare

“The thing was still loathsome--more loathsome, if possible, than before--and the scarlet dew that spotted the hand seemed brighter, and more like blood newly…

— Oscar Wilde

The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living…

— Albert Camus

“My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman who brought no good to anyone, to murder whom would pardon forty sins,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach! Hermione, no! He's no worth it.”

— J.K. Rowling

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

— Barry Humphries

“As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome”

— David Foster Wallace

There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

— Thomas Pynchon

“Where is there a wretch So wicked and loathsome as I? I have forsaken my Maker, So faithless have I been.”

— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“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

“Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.”

— Beverley Nichols

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

— Marquis de Sade