Detested Quotes

43 quotes by 38 authors

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France. — Duke of Wellington
I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In… — Jimmy Connors
The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you,… — Abraham Lincoln
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. — Cornelius Nepos
I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix… — Nina Simone
Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be… — Ambrose Bierce
A manâ€™s got to keep up appearances. Iâ€™ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are. — Julia Quinn
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine. — Angelus Silesius
The Negro. The South. These are details. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls of other men (and in… — John Howard Griffin
The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me. — Bulat Okudzhava
Our founding fathers detested the idea of a democracy and labored long to prevent America becoming one. Once again - the word 'democracy' does not… — Neal Boortz
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future. — Jean Rostand
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain. — William Cowper
Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested… — Michael Azerrad
He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing… — Thomas B. Macaulay
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be… — Ambrose Bierce
Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public… — Criss Jami
Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I… — C.S. Lewis
Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness? — Sean Hannity

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