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Quotes About Detest

I hate babies.
~ Nadya Suleman
Can you forget your love for me, Whom now you detest? But that's all one, those times are gone. No doubt 'tis for the best...
~ A. Norman Jeffares
I hate getting bored.
~ Edward Hall
Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no.
~ Michael Azerrad
There is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies,—which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world—what I want to forget.
~ Joseph Conrad
You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies—which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world—what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament, I suppose.
~ Joseph Conrad
There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies--which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world--what I want to forget.
~ Joseph Conrad
There is a taint of death, a flavor of morality in lies,-which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world-what I want to forget.
~ Joseph Conrad
There is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies—which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world—what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do.
~ Joseph Conrad
I don't see why Allison can't say Hate, Mother," said Harriet. "Hate is a perfectly good word." "It's not polite." "It says Hate in the Bible. The Lord hateth this and the Lord hateth that. It says it practically on every page." "Well, don't you say it." "All right, then," Allison burst out. "I detest Mrs. Biggs." Mrs. Biggs was Allison's Sunday school teacher.
~ Donna Tartt
Near Weinheberplatz, Auden swerves down a side road with a smaller marker that says Audenstrasse. Only when the visitor remarks on it does Auden say, with unfeigned embarrassment: "The Gemeinde (township) really shouldn't have done it. I don't have the bad manners to tell them how much I detest it, but I don't have the nerve to thank them for it either. The name Hinterholz is so much better.
~ Alan Levy
Wandering around the mall and giggling at magazines doesn't interest me. I've never enjoyed shopping. I detest shoes.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
But he - he hated pity as a cat hates water.
~ Richard Adams
Man who has lived through so many storms will either worship the tranquillity or will detest it!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I don't like pop music.
~ Michael Jackson
Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
~ John Lydon
I don't like animals. It's a strange thing, I don't like men and I don't like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
~ Samuel Beckett
They delight in sloth, they detest tranquility.
~ Edward Gibbon
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
~ Aldous Huxley
Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis sure the hardest science to forget! How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence?
~ Alexander Pope
I really detest brunch. I think it's a waste of a good day. Detest is a little too severe, but I would say I'm not a brunch person.
~ Cynthia Rowley
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
~ Lord Byron
Would you like to hear a nice definition of jealousy? It's the feeling that you get when someone you absolutely detest is having a wonderful time without you.
~ William Peter Blatty
I never could act, Edna. And I detest Hamlet. Have you ever seen a production of Hamlet that didn't make you want to go home and put your head in the oven? I haven't. Oh, I thought our Hamlet was quite nice, said Edna. Because it was abridged, said Peg. Which is the only thing Shakespear should ever be.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert