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Quotes About Dislike

I do not have a claustrophobia thing. I have a perfectly rational dislike of being locked up in small, dark, wet spaces by people trying to kill me.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
The piece was like an elegant interrogation made of tangled yarn, a query from a well-dressed man in a casket, not yet dead. It proceeded slowly, like a careful equation, and then not: if x = y, if major = minor, if death equals part of life and life part of death, then what is the sum of the infinite notes of this one phrase? It asked, answered, reasked, its moody asking a refinement of reluctance or dislike.
~ Lorrie Moore
The truth is that the mountains are a place where you can find whatever you want just by looking, as long as you remember that they do not suffer fools gladly and particularly dislike those with preconceived ideas.
~ Louis de Bernieres
He is a Stinkard.
~ Louis L'Amour
I hate ordinary people!
~ Louisa May Alcott
I hate estimable young men with brown eyes!
~ Louisa May Alcott
I hate affected, niminy-piminy chits!
~ Louisa May Alcott
Did he like celery?' 'Does anybody?
~ Louise Erdrich
Nations that are down on their luck and bitter about it are generally disliked and shunned by their neighbors, just as individual people in that position are. Those that are both impoverished and embittered tend to lose the ability to control themselves.
~ Ry? Murakami
People who dislike budging from their homes or walking beyond their own backyards--and they are always and everywhere in the majority--treat Herodotus' sort, fundamentally unconnected to anyone or anything, as freaks, fanatics, lunatics even.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength.
~ Diego Maradona
A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!
~ Richard Carson
Sólo hace dos meses que la conozco ––replicó el conde. ––Y el señor sólo hace cinco minutos que me conoce. No dic e usted más que tonterías. Las mujeres son despiadadas con las personas que no son de su agrado.
~ Alexandre Dumas
though he doesn't like me, I'd trust him and his honest dislike before others who boast of devotion.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I was not really surprised by what he was saying. A lot of people felt that way. Especially men. There was a quantity of things that men hated. Or had no use for, as they said. And that was exactly right. They had no use for it, so they hated it. Maybe it was the same way I felt about algebra- I doubted very much that I would ever find any use for it. But I didn't go so far as to want it wiped off the face of the earth for that reason.
~ Alice Munro
Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.
~ Amanda Craig
HAG, n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, a hen, or cat.
~ Ambrose Bierce
My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers.
~ Joe Sakic
He was never fond of dogs,
~ E. Lockhart
He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That was all he wanted. One thing at a time. He didn't so much as have hopes, for hope distracts, and he had a great deal to see to.
~ E.M. Forster
I don't think I understand people very well. I only know whether I like or dislike them.
~ E.M. Forster
Maurice hated cricket. It demanded a snickety neatness he could not supply.
~ E.M. Forster
Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.
~ E.W. Howe