Detestable Quotes

60 quotes by 50 authors

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor;… — Mark Twain
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life. — Oscar Wilde
He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. — Joseph Conrad
If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting… — Jack Vance
Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made… — Mark Twain
If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. — Ambrose Bierce
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. — Oscar Wilde
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing… — Thomas Paine
Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society. — Maurice Druon
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. — Richard Steele
Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one from… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions… — Oscar Wilde
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. As… — Dorian Cox
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself — Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man. — Ausonius
Such wicked people are detestable to the LORD, but he offers his friendship to the godly. — Unknown Author
Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius inan essentially common personis detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes… — EM Cioran

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