“Tradition is a detestable peddler of errors, to which, alas, the Devil lends a long and tenacious life.” — Jean Ray Copy Share Image
“Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person. — Curt Flood Copy Share Image
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are! — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely,… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
“It is a detestable vice not entirely limited to children. Always speak the truth, all the truth in all things at all… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Which of them, then, was more detestable? The one who was loathsome by nature, or the one who wanted to be loathsome… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way - defined by a minimal set of… — Jonathan Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“One realises, with horror, that the race of men is almost extinct in Europe. Only Christ-like heroes and woman-worshipping Don Juans, and… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“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… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Oh dear! how unamiable I am when I am with my uncle and aunt," thought Rachel, "thoroughly detestable I may say, and… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“Instead, he gripped her forearm. “Why, Jasnah? Why have you always denied me?” “Other than the fact that you are a detestable… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Must, must, must — detestable word. Once more, I who had thought myself immune, who had said, "Now I am rid of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Unless you have been inside a sanitarium you do not know that madmen are made there, just as criminals are made in… — André Breton Copy Share Image
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Wingare regarded him through slitted blue eyes. "Have you any idea, Rathbourne, how utterly detestable you become when you adopt that… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
“It is because of the Biblical curse on man's search for knowledge, which has so paralyzed his mind during the past ages,… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines. — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
