Best I Detest Quotes
59 I Detest quotes by 50 unique authors
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I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but…
— Richard Dawkins
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I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.
— Amanda Palmer
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I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense.
— Gary Kemp
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Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found…
— E L Doctorow
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I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.
— Cleveland Amory
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If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill…
— John Cheever
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I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence,…
— Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
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I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will…
— Mark Twain
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I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.
— Peter Ackroyd
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The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
— Stephen Leacock
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One thing I detest, I have to say, is when a shoe is too soft, and it's molding to the foot. This is quite disgusting.…
— Christian Louboutin
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I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
— Nelson Mandela
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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures…
— H. L. Mencken
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We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael…
— Dennis Miller
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Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And…
— Salman Rushdie
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
— Virginia Woolf
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I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship.…
— Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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I detest those who deceive me...
— Steve Berry
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I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and…
— Sukarno
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I am not going to say you are right because I could not take it if you smirked." "I do not smirk," Vikirnoff claimed. "Yes,…
— Christine Feehan
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Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to…
— Melina Marchetta
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Gracious," said Cecily. "You must be Mr. Sallows." "Nephilim," observed the shop owner gloomily. "I detest Nephilim." "Hmph," said Cecily. "Charmed, I'm sure.
— Cassandra Clare
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