Antipathy Quotes

• We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.

  James Joyce

  Together, Bounds

  8 Copy quote

• Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

  William Hazlitt

  Betrayal, Secret, Violent

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1179, Delphi Classics

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.

  George Tenet

  Two Sides, Iraq, Ties

  52 Copy quote

• The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Teenager, Average, People

  7 Copy quote

• Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

  Virginia Woolf

  Nature, Tears, Together

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.13, Oxford University Press, USA

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Doubt, Able

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Sympathy, Valentines Day

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.348, Classic Books Company

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Cat, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 47

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Attitude

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.247, Princeton University Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

  Jane Austen

  Selfish, Men, Feelings

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.133

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.

  Horace Walpole

  Air, Vulgar, Nations

  Letter to Hannah More, 14 October 1787, in 'Letters'

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

  Alexander Pope

  Strong, Asks, Provocation

  'Imitations of Horace' Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 2, l. 197

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

  Albert Pike

  Sympathy, Law Of Attraction, Principles

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Hate

  Twitter post from Aug 13, 2017

  244 Copy quote

  Show source

• Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Love, Hate, Views

  13 Copy quote

• A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Sex, Wedding Anniversary

  94 Copy quote

• In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party

  Franz Boas

  Strong, Party, Years

  Franz Boas (1969). “Race and Democratic Society”, p.68, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Frustration, Gun

  73 Copy quote

• There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

  Bill Vaughan

  Class, England, Huge

  7 Copy quote

• Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

  Rick Santorum

  Apology, Sacrifice, America

  7 Copy quote

• It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Frustration, Gun

  "Obama 'sorry' for God and guns jibe" by Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2008.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

  Marisha Pessl

  People, Feelings, Common

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.229, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture of prose and poetry that conveys, in addition to ideology, sympathy or antipathy.

  William C. Brown

  Spiritual, Exercise, Emotional

  8 Copy quote

• We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  7 Copy quote

• Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.

  Isaac Asimov

  Children, Science, Lifelong

  7 Copy quote