Quotes with detest

  • Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

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  • Alexander Pope How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Stephen Leacock I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Homer I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Lord George Byron I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Bill Bailey I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all...
    Dandelion Mind
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Charles Edward Jerningham Never lay others under an obligation; it generally obliges them to detest you.
    The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • Virginia Woolf Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Lord George Byron Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Barry Ritholtz One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Noam Chomsky Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Sometimes I read a book with pleasure, and detest the author.
    Works (1754)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bill Simmons The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Brendan Behan The English and Americans dislike only some Irish - the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers - the ones that think.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Pamela Hansford Johnson There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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