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Quotes About Distaste

Olla hyödyllinen ihminen - minusta siinä on aina ollut jotakin hyvin vastenmielistä.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.
~ Charles Swindoll
Well, then again, she herself could be pretty single-minded when the occasion warranted it. But going over accounts and taxes? Quite honestly, she'd rather be tied to a stake by her hair and drowned in pickle juice. (Emily)
~ Kinley MacGregor
Tormund Thunderfist had better things to do than learn to make papers talk at him.
~ George R.R. Martin
A small victory, he thought, but sweet. He had passed his first test. Tyrion Lannister shouldered through the door, feeling almost tall. Five members of the king's small council broke off their discussion suddenly. "You,"his sister Cersei said in a tone that was equal parts disbelief and distaste.
~ George R.R. Martin
Eeww." "Don't say 'eeww.' It's wussy.
~ J.D. Robb
but I should have known from her original announcement of independence to believe in the sincerity of her distaste for involvement, instead hurling on at her as if and because in fact I wanted to be hurt and 'lacerate' myself
~ Jack Kerouac
I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
~ Imelda Marcos
At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.
~ Jean-Pierre Melville
they felt a genuine distaste for the institution of slavery. But of at least equal importance was a sense that the Confederacy was not a good credit risk (after all, the Confederate president Jefferson Davis had openly advocated the repudiation of state debts when he was a US senator).
~ Niall Ferguson
I hate that stuff. It tastes like feet." At that he smiled. "How would you know what feet taste like?" "I just know.
~ Cassandra Clare
I grew a very early distaste for fame and glamour because I saw what the spotlight and attention can do to you as a family, so to speak.
~ Abhay Deol
But no; he did not like cabbages
~ Virginia Woolf
Most women have a distaste for guns, and I am no exception.
~ Judy LaMarsh
From the face Yberio made, you'd have thought he was having trouble swallowing a crap-covered turdball rolled in shit sprinkles.
~ Tim Waggoner
Ash," said Lowbeer, fingers extended around the candle as if for warmth, "imagines you a conservative." "Does she?" "Or a romantic, perhaps. She sees your distaste for the present rooted in the sense of a fall from grace. That some prior order, or perhaps the lack of one, afforded a more authentic existence.
~ William Gibson
Personal violence did not come naturally to Eliot; in fact he had found it distasteful. What could he say, he was a sensitive individual, fate had blessed and cursed him with a tender heart.
~ Lev Grossman
For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.
~ Shepard Fairey
Although they often kill out of season or at night, they usually eat what they kill. I admire them, and so I feel a flicker of distaste for this outsider.
~ Unknown
I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.
~ Anthony Hopkins
Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
~ William Shakespeare
As it happens, there are three things in particular that suit me very ill: feathered hats, general ideas, and earrings.
~ Colette
If I ever have to see something like that again, he told us, I will retire and raise dachshunds.
~ Jeff Lindsay
It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
~ Zara Phillips