"Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage……" — Charles Dickens
"Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low."
More Detestation Quotes
- I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty. — Taylor Caldwell
- No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on… — Alexander Hamilton
- I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and… — Lord Byron
- All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that… — Matthew Scully
- I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality… — Thomas Jefferson
- There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the… — John Adams
- ...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which… — Joris-Karl Huysmans