Detestable Quotes

60 quotes by 50 authors

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person. — Curt Flood
Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude. — George Washington
In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never… — Thomas Paine
Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through… — Saint Francis de Sales
Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned… — Virginia Woolf
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end. — Karel Capek
... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but find… — Henry de Montherlant
The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever. — Charles Darwin
The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of… — Frederic Bastiat
Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of… — Samuel Johnson
Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but… — A. E. Housman
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so. — Romain Rolland
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable — Oscar Wilde
As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me. — H. Rider Haggard
He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him.… — Joseph Conrad
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half… — Henry James
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as… — Primo Levi
Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts â€“ and… — Jasper Fforde
Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are! — Virginia Woolf
He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so… — Robert Louis Stevenson

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