Quote by Joseph Conrad

“I liked him; not because he was a good sort, as he later proved to be, but because he was enthusiastic about things.”

— Jack Kerouac

“And to be like me, he had to be sour, bitter, hating everyone, and suspicious of their hidden motives.”

— V.C. Andrews

“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

“He could take advantage of me at any point in time that he preferred; the fact that he didn’t made me both admire him…

— Scott Hildreth

“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 despised him for liking me so much. I wondered how he could settle for so little.”

— Marian Keyes

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

— Geraldine Brooks

“(disliking people rarely being a sufficient reason for not wanting them to like us).”

— Alain de Botton

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

— Osamu Dazai

“I realized I liked being hated more than I liked being liked-that's when the game began.”

— Joshua Green

“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

“He was discovering that even hatred died a little at the end. But it still lasted longer than desire, longer even than love.”

— P.D. James