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Quotes About Dislike

Do you like Moby Dick ?" he asks. "I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books like that that make them think they hate reading.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
If something is good and universally acknowledged to be so, this is not reason enough to dislike it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I think I don't like children because I hated being young.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
In the end, they didn't like her because they didn't like her. She wasn't going to reason them out of their dislike. She wasn't going to teach anyone anything.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I say, "I just don't like you
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Do you like Moby Dick?" he asks. "I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books like that that make them think they hate reading.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
something is good and universally acknowledged to be so, this is not reason enough to dislike it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
~ Brian Eno
You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.
~ bronte anne ii
Let's be friends based on mutual hate.
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
~ Buddha
Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours—watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he had a chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern's tower, and make a little heap of dust of it.
~ Herman Melville
Now, contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love; and thus was it with respect to Wilson. No one could look at him without conceiving a strong dislike, or a cordial desire to entertain such a feeling the first favourable opportunity. There was such an intolerable air of conceit about this man that it was almost as much as one could do to refrain from running up and affronting him.
~ Herman Melville
I abominate all honorable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever.
~ Herman Melville
Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours - watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he have a chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern's tower, and make a little heap of dust of it.
~ Herman Melville
Let's go sit and hate a bunch of people.
~ Horace McCoy
Let's go sit and hate a bunch of people.
~ Horace McCoy
Familiarity seems to breed contempt
~ Hunter S. Thompson
It was tied with a Windsor knot. Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity. It was often the mark of a cad. Bond decided to forget his prejudice.
~ Ian Fleming
Bond found this irksome. He disliked being cosseted. It gave him claustrophobia.
~ Ian Fleming
He hated Virginia tobacco
~ Ian Fleming
And perhaps that was typical of a certain . . . imbalance in their friendship that had always been there and which Clive had been aware of somewhere in his heart and had always pushed away, disliking himself for unworthy thoughts. Until now.
~ Ian Mcewan
This is what he disliked about political people – injustice and calamity animated them, it was their milk, their lifeblood, it pleasured them.
~ Ian Mcewan
In New York all the young people know me... I have a lot of friends... but I hate New York.
~ Nico