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Quotes About Dislike

this is how you smile to someone you don't like too much; this is how you smile to someone you don't like at all; this is how you smile to someone you like completely;
~ Jamaica Kincaid
I gaped at the cold shock of his beauty, deep-green eyes, features fine as a girl's. It struck from me a sudden, springing dislike. I had not changed so much, nor so well.
~ Madeline Miller
I'm beginning to learn a few of the things I dont want," said Herf quietly. "At least I'm beginning to have the nerve to admit to myself how much I dislike all the things I dont want.
~ John Dos Passos
With the years his dislike of humbug had increased; the orthodoxy he had worn in the 'sixties', as he had worn side-whiskers out of sheer exuberance , had long dropped off, leaving him reverent before three things alone - beauty, upright conduct, and the sense of property; and the greatest of these now was beauty.
~ John Galsworthy
The relief came from the sudden realization that she had just been freed from a job she despised.
~ John Grisham
I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman -- they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence
~ John Keats
Phineas didn't really dislike West Point in particular or authority in general, but just considered authority the necessary evil against which happiness was achieved by reaction, the backboard which returned all the insults he threw at it.
~ John Knowles
I didn't like the play. But I saw it under unfavorable circumstances – the curtains were up. GROUCHO MARX
~ John Lloyd
Scorpio's dislike being disrespected on any level.
~ Unknown
I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things.
~ Ricky Williams
Sometimes you don't give someone a reason to dislike you; they just do it out of purely insecurities.
~ Unknown
Being nice to someone you dislike doesn't mean you're a fake, It means you are mature enough to tolerate your dislike towards them..
~ Unknown
Being nice to someone you dislike doesn't mean you're FAKE. It means you are mature enough to tolerate your dislike towards them.
~ Unknown
One thing about life is, there will be people that enter into your life, even at a distance, who will make no effort to get to know you, but will instead just choose not to like you.
~ Unknown
I called her Minnie all the time. She loved our house as much as I hated it.
~ Malorie Blackman
Lies, so often misleading and which form the substance of all conversations, are less effective in covering up a feeling of dislike or of self-interest, or a visit one would rather people did not know about, or a one-day fling one wants to conceal from one's wife - than a good reputation is in utterly overshadowing disreputable habits.
~ Marcel Proust
I want to make one thing clear. I do not like, nor will I ever like, any one of you. Why? Because I know that despite the fine work of myself and my staff, you will inevitably make all of us look bad. It pains me.
~ John Scalzi
About Cal she couldn't decide. He disturbed her sometimes with anger, sometimes with pain, and sometimes with curiosity. He seemed to be in a perpetual contest with her. She didn't know whether he liked her or not, and so she didn't like him. She was relieved when, calling at the Trask house, Cal was not there, to look secretly at her, judge, appraise, consider, and look away when she caught him at it.
~ John Steinbeck
Though old himself, he disliked old men.
~ John Updike
How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with whom we are competitive, or whom we dislike or have a quarrel with; but very few of us have true enemies in the martial sense. And yet if Lincoln could pray fervently- and contemporary reports indicate he did- for the people who were opposing him, how much more can we do for someone we just find a little irritating?
~ John Wooden
I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
~ Paul Weller
I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.
~ Edward Dmytryk
I don't like weeds! My father made me mow weeds and cut weeds when I was a kid. I've hated weeds ever since I was 12 years old. I'll never go in the weeds! I'll never gonna take you in the weeds.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Hate can be passionate or disengaged; it can come from dislike but also from fear.
~ Vanessa Diffenbaugh