Quotes with disgust

  • Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.

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  • George Eliot But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Lord Chesterfield If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Havelock Ellis It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • John Ruskin Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Francesco Petrarca Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
    Francesco Petrarca
    Italian poet and writer (1304 - 1374)
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  • Ovid The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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