Odious Quotes

79 Odious quotes by 70 unique authors

John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into political… — Hunter S. Thompson
I think comparisons are odious. — John Madden
But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise… — James Otis
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious. — Samuel Richardson
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to… — Thomas Szasz
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. — Virginia Woolf
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. — Norton Juster
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most… — George Eliot
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the… — Winston Churchill
Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to… — Jonathan Swift
Why do guys insist on wearing those odious jeans with their rear ends hanging down around their ankles? Do they really think it's hot? — Steve Kluger
And she hates being managed - that is not the word I want. What is it, Maturin?' 'Manipulated.' 'Exactly. She is a dutiful girl -… — Patrick O'Brian
In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in… — Jane Austen
Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not… — James Lee Burke
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen as odious. Archery?… — Margaret George
I look at him. "It's odious," he says. "Detention?" I ask, confused. "Huh?" We have no idea what the other is talking about. "What's odious?"… — Melina Marchetta
When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or… — Theodore Dreiser
Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve… — George Washington
Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many… — Claude Pepper
The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and… — Antonio Gramsci
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible… — George Grenville
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them. — Mark Twain

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