Dislike Quotes - Page 12

• From so much of this seriously-intended pornography there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of self-dislike.

  Storm Jameson

  Self, Smell, Comic

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• Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

  Max Planck

  Science, Ideas, Scientist

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• A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.

  Helen McCloy

  Thinking, Likes And Dislikes, Language

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• How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.

  Margaret Drabble

  People, Expectations, Needs

  Margaret Drabble (2013). “The Middle Ground”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Artist, Criticism, Sincere

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• The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense and of cheapness.

  Emily Post

  Play, Honor, His Love

  Emily Post (1945). “Children are People: And Ideal Parents are Comrades”

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• A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Men, Mark

  "George Bernard Shaw, His Life and Works (Chapter VII: The Art Critic)". Book by Archibald Henderson (pp. 201-202), 1911.

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• A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great hero, and yet he may have an unseemly passion, or an unpaid tailor. But the British public does not understand this. ... It thinks, unhappily or happily as you may choose to consider, that genius should keep the whole ten commandments. Now, genius is conspicuous for breaking them.

  Ouida

  Hero, Passion, Men

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• A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Hate, Writing, Easier

  Gabrielle Zevin (2014). “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel”, p.239, Algonquin Books

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• What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

  Andre Gide

  Prayer, Self, Moments

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• All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Dislike Someone, Wish

  "The Story of My Life". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1932.

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• For we seldom admire the wit, when we dislike the man.

  Jeremiah Seed

  Men, He Man, Admire

  Jeremiah Seed (1763). “Discourses on several important subjects: To which is added, Eight sermons preached at the Lady Moyer's lecture, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London”, p.217

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• To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.

  Sallust

  Likes And Dislikes, Likes, Bonds Of Friendship

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• I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book I wrote, not on what I say in letters to friends, not on my husband and my home life, the way I dress, my likes and dislikes, et cetera. My book belongs to anyone who has the price, but nothing of me belongs to the public.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Husband, Book, Home

  Margaret Mitchell (1986). “Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind letters, 1936-1949”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike.

  Dolly Parton

  Fear, People, Knows

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• The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not.

  Joseph Hall

  Taken, Eye, Fasting

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• How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

  Joseph Hall

  Hate, Calling, Holiness

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.505

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• The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail. And whereas the unlike is normally situated at a safe distance, the Jews bring the unlike into the heart of every milieu, and must there defend a frontier line as large as the world.

  Israel Zangwill

  Distance, Heart, Law

  Israel Zangwill (1921). “The Voice of Jerusalem”

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• I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.

  Martha Graham

  Kissing, Dislike Me, Apathetic

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality, coexistence, dislike, inbred differences and love despite knowledge I learned from my four younger siblings.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sibling, Differences, People

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• Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sight, Long, People

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person. Something in me - probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism- stops me from approaching a project too autobiographically.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Character, Talking, Exhibitionism

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• Like when you pick up a book and you don't realize what type of text it is - it could be an essay, a novel, a biography - and at one point you realize you don't know where, as a reader, you want to be. Where are you going with this text? What is the goal? How are you supposed to interpret what you're reading? And people's responses vary - some dislike it, and are put off by the confusion, the lack of comprehension.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Book, Reading, Goal

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Real, Healing

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• My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural.

  Van Morrison

  Responsibility, Rocks, Natural

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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