Detest Quotes

124 Detest quotes by 105 unique authors

I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment. — Amanda Palmer
I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense. — Gary Kemp
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. — Frederick Douglass
Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found… — E L Doctorow
One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him. — Mahatma Gandhi
I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors. — Cleveland Amory
If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill… — John Cheever
Love the offender, yet detest the offense. — Alexander Pope
Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome… — Orson Scott Card
I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence,… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
If your parents were strong in one way and weak in another, you will be strong in the same way and weak in the same… — Frederick Lenz
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will… — Mark Twain
I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the… — Laura Kightlinger
I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical. — Peter Ackroyd
All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and… — Galileo Galilei
I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to destructure,… — Janice Tanton
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such… — Charles Caleb Colton
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. — E. W. Howe
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. — Stephen Leacock
I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics. — Ken Livingstone
One thing I detest, I have to say, is when a shoe is too soft, and it's molding to the foot. This is quite disgusting.… — Christian Louboutin

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