Detested Quotes

43 quotes by 38 authors

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. — Erica Jong
The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable. — Carroll O'Connor
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health. — Jean Piaget
While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has… — Harold Pinter
I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I… — Maurice Sendak
For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the… — Hermann Hesse
Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first… — Oscar Wilde
And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power as she came… — Virginia Woolf
Anthony Bridgerton leaned back in his leather chair,and then announced, "I'm thinking about getting married." Benedict Bridgerton, who had been indulging in a habit his… — Julia Quinn
I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you'… — Christopher Hitchens
A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested… — James A. Baldwin
I am asking you to marry me because I love you,â€ he said, â€œbecause I cannot imagine living my life without you. I want to… — Julia Quinn
Their families cordially detested one another. — Terry Pratchett
The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator... — Mikhail Bulgakov
I detested you, at the moment of my death... My soul cannot move beyond that... As long as you live, I cannot rest! -Kikyo to… — Rumiko Takahashi
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons. — Sinclair Lewis
In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and… — Saint Ignatius
Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was… — Samuel E. Morison
But an officer on duty knows no one -- to be partial is to dishonor both himself and the object of his illadvised favor. What… — WIlliam Jenkins Worth

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