Detest Quotes

124 Detest quotes by 105 unique authors

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most. — John Lydon
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. — Nelson Mandela
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures… — H. L. Mencken
We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael… — Dennis Miller
Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And… — Salman Rushdie
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of… — John Steinbeck
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. — Jonathan Swift
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. — Virginia Woolf
I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time. — Felix Dennis
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but… — Jonathan Swift
If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard… — Carter G. Woodson
I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship.… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
I detest those who deceive me... — Steve Berry
I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at… — Jane Austen
I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are… — Haruki Murakami
Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked). — J.R.R. Tolkien
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell… — H. L. Mencken
You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals… — Joseph Conrad
No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand. — Baruch Spinoza
I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and… — Sukarno
Would you like to hear a nice definition of jealousy? It's the feeling that you get when someone you absolutely detest is having a wonderful… — William Peter Blatty
Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
I am not going to say you are right because I could not take it if you smirked." "I do not smirk," Vikirnoff claimed. "Yes,… — Christine Feehan
I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and… — Galileo Galilei
I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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