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Quotes About Detestation

To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.
~ Clive Barker
Favorite color: I hate colors.
~ Ian Shoales
Too oft is a smile But the hypocrite's wile, To mask detestation or fear; Give me a soft sigh, Whilst the soultelling eye Is dimm'd, for a time, with a Tear
~ Lord Byron
Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.
~ Mickey Mantle
I hate entertainment.
~ John Cassavetes
I'm an equal opportunity despiser.
~ Jesse Ventura
There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue.
~ John Adams
It is unlikely that Percy would have written my mother after her return from Europe, and, had she written, the letter would have been destroyed, since that family had a crusading detestation of souvenirs. Letters, photographs, diplomas—anything that authenticated the past was always thrown into the fire.
~ John Cheever
Men certainly speak peace to themselves when their so doing is not attended with the greatest detestation imaginable of that sin in reference whereunto they do speak peace to themselves, and abhorrency of themselves for it.
~ John Owen
ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.
~ Mary Shelley
As far as she was concerned, NOC for Dirk meant Noxious Obnoxious Cretin.
~ Unknown
even the word humanism made me want to vomit, but that might have been the canapés.
~ Michel Houellebecq
I took a strong dislike to him right then to save time and effort later.
~ Mike Carey
Even the rickshaw coolie, given, to be on the safe side, double his normal fee, takes the money in grim silence and immediately looks away. It is most uncomfortable to feel oneself as an object of this universal detestation , a mere foreign-devil in fact.
~ Unknown
And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.
~ Zechariah 11:8