Detestable Quotes
60 quotes by 50 authors
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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
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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
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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
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
— Confucius
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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
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Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
— Charles Darwin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
— C.S. Lewis
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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
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At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of…
— John Calvin
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Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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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
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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
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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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