Quote by Jane Austen

“I do not dislike him. I consider him, on the contrary, as a very respectable man, who has everybody's good word and nobody's notice…”

— Jane Austen

“There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you’re determined to dislike for no good reason.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“I despised him as one fit only for amusement, a man with whom I associated for that sole purpose.”

— Osamu Dazai

“One could not help liking him and one could not avoid hating him; and sometimes one hated him when one liked himmost”

— Catherine Radziwill

“I admire wit, but I have no real liking for it. It has been too often employed against me.”

— Charles S. Brooks

“I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“if he were honest with himself, he’d understand that his hate was, in fact, a form of respect. You don’t bother to hate what…

— Nelson DeMille

“I wondered what he'd done that had been so terrible that he wouldn't accept even an ounce of kindness from another person. It seemed…

— Kristen Simmons

“You see we had on the whole liked him well enough. And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in…

— Joseph Conrad

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“Easy to dimiss, perhaps, but difficult to hate.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“have I not the reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world…

— William Hazlitt