Disgust Quotes
207 Disgust quotes by 176 unique authors
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It is clear that 'social Darwinism' and 'survival of the fittest' were intended by Obama to evoke feelings of fear and disgust. It is highly…
— George H. Smith
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It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.
— Andy Hargreaves
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The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others) are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all…
— Polly Toynbee
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Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.
— Polly Toynbee
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Oh Wasn't it naughty of Smudges? Oh, Mummy, I'm sick with disgust. She threww me in front of the judges, And my silly old collar-bone's…
— John Betjeman
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For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
— Margaret Cavendish
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Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther…
— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him for making faces, but…
— Jonathan Franzen
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The cross guarantees that even in your darkest moment God will never turn in disgust and walk away. There is no rebellion, no weakness, no…
— Paul David Tripp
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They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of…
— Samuel Johnson
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What does it mean to know and experience my own “nothingness?” It is not enough to turn away in disgust from my illusions and faults…
— Thomas Merton
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I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the stuff I choose…
— Jason Mraz
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I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots...This may give you some idea…
— Father Damien
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But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him…
— George Eliot
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Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar,
— Luis Bunuel
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The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows…
— Peter Sloterdijk
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Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot…
— Guido von List
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Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent,
— Milan Kundera
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I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the…
— Jane Austen
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The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even…
— Mark Zandi
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I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may…
— Joseph Conrad
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one…
— Francesco Guicciardini
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There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words…
— Pietro Aretino
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Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.
— James Buchan
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We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.
— Aristotle
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