Quotes of: Detest Keyword

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

Christine Lahti

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

Carroll O'Connor

Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.

Zac Goldsmith

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

Curt Flood

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

Jonathan Swift

That's a good attitude. You should hate me more, curse me more, and detest me! Then you should take the power of that hatred and use it to survive this rotten world.

Hideaki Sorachi

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Desiderius Erasmus

Pino: I detest this place like a sickness.

Do the Right Thing

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

Peter Ackroyd

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Millard Fillmore

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

Lord Byron

I am beginning to loathe & detest all that Hollywood represents.

Charles R. Jackson

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.

Italo Calvino

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

E. W. Howe

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.

Felix Dennis

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

Xun Zi

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Alexander Pope

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Virginia Woolf

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

Romain Rolland