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Quotes About Detest

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The harder you try to bind him by your deeds, the more he will detest you. I pity you, for there is no way forward for you. He will hate you for your successes as much as your failures.' Truth has done some thinking, while he has been locked away. He says, 'I make sure that my successes are the king's, while my failures are my own.
~ Hilary Mantel
Man, I hate vegetables.
~ Luol Deng
Alternatives to gold and currency and to make a big speculative vehicle - I never considered for one second having anything to do with it. I detested it the minute it had been raised.
~ Charlie Munger
Solitude, which I both crave and detest.
~ Jessica Park
I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.
~ Peter Ackroyd
She detested the princes cordially, because she had asked them for help long ago when the hamster kingdom had been trapped under a spell of sleep, and they had laughed at her. (Her mother insisted on the 'cordial' part. Harriet would have preferred to detest them actively, possibly with screaming, but since their parents ruled neighbouring kingdoms, this was not considered diplomatic.)
~ Unknown
she had asked them for help long ago when the hamster kingdom had been trapped under a spell of sleep, and they had laughed at her. (Her mother insisted on the "cordial" part. Harriet would have preferred to detest them actively, possibly with screaming, but since their parents ruled neighboring kingdoms, this was not considered diplomatic.)
~ Unknown
Then I shall be devastated. My heart will be crushed as thoroughly as dust beneath your feet". "Oh, we can't have that". Her eyes widened in an innocent manner he didn't believe for a moment. "I quite detest dust".
~ Victoria Alexander
The french Captain tells me, I have caused a War with France," Truxtun wrote Stoddert. "If so I am glad of it, for I detest Things being done by Halves." The
~ Ian W. Toll
Perish the thought!
~ Colley Cibber
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
~ Virginia Woolf
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
~ Voltaire
Do you know what, I don't even like dancing.
~ Leo Sayer
I can't stand dogs.
~ Vic Reeves
Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.
~ J. K. Rowling
If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists – all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone.
~ John Cheever
I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.
~ Galileo Galilei
As a general rule, I hate parties. Actually, hate isn't a strong enough word. I detest them. I suck at small talk, and I'm not a "people person".
~ Marcia Clark
How shall I love the sin yet keep the sense And love the offender yet detest the offence?
~ Alexander Pope
I hate music, especially when it's played.
~ Jimmy Durante
All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.
~ Mary Shelley
Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov