Disgusting Quotes - Page 2

• Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Sick, Chic, Staggering

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• With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.

  Sonny Bono

  Degrees, Goes On, Lawyer

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• Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was.

  Ann Coulter

  Office, Oval, Firsts

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• Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Passion, Violent, Should

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• I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Hands, Honor

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• The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

  Laurence Olivier

  Drama, Exercise, Light

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Work, Humble, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.366, Penguin

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• Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Balance, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1084, Library of America

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• Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Passion, Ears, Rock N Roll

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• There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Hate, Book, People

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• For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Yield, Madness, Disorder

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• 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

  Night, Men, Wife

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

  Walter Benjamin

  Touching

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.

  Rosie Perez

  Sorry, Latin, Office

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• I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.

  John Cusack

  Stars, Teenager, Enough

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

  Esther Dyson

  Father, Nice, People

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• Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

  Al Goldstein

  Effort, Stories, Artistic

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• There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

  Maxim Gorky

  Giving, Earth, Miserable

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• It's hard enough to go through puberty. Everyone's embarassed about their youth, but if just happens that the '80s were particularly disgusting. Flock of Seagulls is not cool.

  Alyssa Milano

  Youth, Enough, Flocks

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• At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.

  Martha Beck

  Lonely, Trying, Admitting

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• Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.

  Elia Kazan

  People, Disturbing

  Elia Kazan, Jeff Young (1999). “Kazan: the master director discusses his films : interviews with Elia Kazan”, Newmarket Pr

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• The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Girl, Kissing, First Kiss

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• These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

  Hannah Arendt

  Knows

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• I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting.

  Rick Wakeman

  Garden, Cities, Annoyed

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• I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

  Queen Victoria

  Baby, Thinking, Young

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