Quotes with odious

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  • Charles Lamb A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Claude D. Pepper Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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  • Claude D. Pepper Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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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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  • Bernard Mandeville Luxury
    Employ'd a Million of the Poor,
    And odious Pride a Million more;
    Envy it self, and Vanity,
    Were Ministers of Industry;
    Their darling Folly, Fickleness,
    In Diet, Furniture and Dress,
    That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made
    The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade.
    The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 180, p. 10
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Mark Twain Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Virginia Woolf To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Francois René de Chateaubriand You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.
    Francois René de Chateaubriand
    French poet, writer and politician (1768 - 1848)
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