Odious Quotes
79 Odious quotes by 70 unique authors
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What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true…
— Edward Carpenter
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Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.
— Frederic Chopin
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I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law…
— Grover Cleveland
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My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does…
— Frank Miller
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But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.
— F. E. Adcock
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You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.
— William Shakespeare
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Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
— Claude Pepper
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Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you…
— Richard Sibbes
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
— Guy de Maupassant
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An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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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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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine…
— Harlan F. Stone
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A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that…
— Ed Royce
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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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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Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.
— Pierre Corneille
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Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this…
— Hilaire Belloc
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
— John Stuart Mill
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We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people…
— John Sherman
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I like playing Vernon Dursley in 'Harry Potter,' because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of…
— Richard Griffiths
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