Detestable Quotes

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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with… — Charles Bukowski
It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no God, the other… — Stephen Charnock
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable. — Confucius
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can… — William Ralph Inge
Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity. — Charles Darwin
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious. — William E. Gladstone
Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way - defined by a minimal set of traits that are… — Jonathan Rosenbaum
In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest,… — Joseph Conrad
You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and flamboyance is not illegal. It… — Don King
It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men… — Alexis de Tocqueville
How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable… — Gabrielle Hamilton
Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all. — C.S. Lewis
How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same… — James Clavell
At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of… — John Calvin
Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death. — William Shakespeare
When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he… — Xunzi
And just as there are no crimes so detestable that they can prevent the gift of grace, so too there can be no works so… — Prosper of Aquitaine
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot… — Edwin Percy Whipple
Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of costly… — Earnest Hooton

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