Distasteful Quotes

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought.

— Learned Hand

You can be authentic without being distasteful or disrespectful.

— Jason Whitlock

“Because we find something distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem it criminal.”

— Moby

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

— Francis Drake

“had long ceased to be a painful memory and become a merely distasteful one”

— George Orwell

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

— Anonymous

It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

— Jules Verne

I've seen [Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human being…

— Joss Whedon

I think it's very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don't talk about. That's why I…

— Mick Jagger

“She regards me the same way I would a cat – like I’m distasteful, occasionally entertaining, and not to be trusted not…

— Eliza Crewe

Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people…

— Albert J. Nock

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot…

— Leo Tolstoy

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of…

— John Dos Passos

All theological lore is growing distasteful to me. All my recent excursions into such fields proves it to be a shifting, hypothetical,…

— Wilfred Owen

Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart…

— Anonymous

“Have you found your life distasteful? My life did and does smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I save…

— Robert Browning

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped…

— George Eliot

What's that smell?" I froze. What? Did I really smell so distasteful he had only to lean in my direction to catch…

— Gena Showalter

Whether my acting was obscene, or whether it was distasteful, well, Judge Rehnquist, who just recently passed away couldn't define pornography. His…

— Harry Reems

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple;…

— Charles Lamb

“In his own country all this would have been highly distasteful to Jean Marie Latour. Here, these demonstrations seemed a part of…

— Willa Cather

I've seen [Donald Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human…

— Joss Whedon

One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't go…

— Malcolm X

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

— Dan Farmer

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

— Francis Quarles

As a collegiate, I think you spend 50 percent of your time recruiting. It is a distasteful process.

— Marv Levy

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

— John Maynard Keynes

“Things are often exactly what they seem---horrifying or distasteful, even repugnant and disgusting.”

— Norman Giddan

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

— Tom Hollander

Someone so mean, ruse and distasteful, I dont know why they like you. There is something wrong with their eyes.

— Kyu Won

Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal.

— Moby

I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody…

— John Currin

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities,…

— Charles Dickens

I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can,…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any…

— Richard M. Nixon

When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their…

— Mary Ruwart

“As distasteful as it is to decline your invitation, I'm afraid that it is preferable to attending yet another half-assed weekend eating…

— A.C. Kemp

When I would go over to friends' houses, and they would be zoning out to Mario Brothers, I just found it the…

— David Longstreth

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a…

— Margaret Benson