Dislike Quotes - Page 26

• Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

  Samuel Johnson

  Common, Mutual, Expected

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781”, p.249, Princeton University Press

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• It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Cat, Ideas

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Political, Slavery

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.616, Vintage

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• Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. .... It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause from the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Talking, Class

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.174, Knopf

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• Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

  John Masefield

  People, Suffering, Tragedy

  John Masefield (1923). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield”

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• If a community of people wears white on a mournful occasion and another dresses in black, then one community would like white and dislike black and the other would like black and dislike white. Moreover, this attitude leaves a physical effect on the cells as well as on the genes in the body.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Attitude, Cells, White

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• If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different likes and dislikes. Therefore the sages never require the same ability from all creatures. . . concepts of right should be founded on what is suitable. The true saint leaves wisdom to the ants, takes a cue from the fishes, and leaves willfulness to the sheep.

  Zhuangzi

  Sheep, Likes And Dislikes, Bird

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• A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Children, Boys

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• Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  People, Political, Als

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.245

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• There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.

  Robert Goulet

  Hurt, Feelings, Want

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• One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national team tests I took on ergs were dismal failures, which worked wonders to further my dislike of these beastly creatures. Boring. Tedious. Noisy. Ergs have greatly cheapened rowing. Graceless. Greasy. Grim. The erg is to rowing what having sex by yourself is to having sex. Stop it!

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Motivational, Sex, Team

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• Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.

  N.D. Wilson

  Shadow, Finals, Roles

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World”, p.54, Thomas Nelson

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• Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.

  Ken Kesey

  Drug, Important, Criminals

  Source: theodorecarter.com

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• In our house we don't use words like "despise" and 'hate,' we say "strongly dislike."

  Madonna Ciccone

  Hate, House, Despise

  "The Unapologetic Madonna Interview: The Queen Of Pop On Grindr, Song Leaks, Her Kids, And More". Interview with Dan Avery, www.newnownext.com. March 10, 2015.

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• People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a 'common purpose'. 'Cause pretty soon they have little hats. And armbands. And fight songs. And a list of people they're going to visit at 3am. So, I dislike and despise groups of people but I love individuals. Every person you look at; you can see the universe in their eyes, if you're really looking.

  George Carlin

  Song, Hate, Eye

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• My job is not to talk smack about anything. This is why I dislike strongly doing magazine articles: My personality does not translate to print. People don't read it as sarcasm, and it just comes off badly.

  Sandra Bullock

  Jobs, Sarcasm, People

  "She's Strong, She's Sexy, She's Sandra Bullock". Interview with Anne Fletcher, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2009.

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• I dislike those people that see an opera and say "Oh, they can't act it. They just sing. It's boring." Lean back and just listen to the voices.

  Peter Stormare

  Voice, People, Opera

  Source: collider.com

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• The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

  Horace

  Gay, Sorrow, Sorrowful

  "Epistles", I. 18. 89, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 733-36, 1922.

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• The awful atrocities of religion happened when people assume that God shares your likes and dislikes. The Crusaders when into battle to kill Muslims and Jews and cried, "God will's it." That was their battle cry. Obviously God willed no such thing. The Crusaders were simply projecting onto a deity they'd created on their own image and likeness, all their hatred and loathing of these faiths and made it endorse some of their most awful prejudices and lethal prejudices.

  Karen Armstrong

  Likes And Dislikes, People, Hatred

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I confess I prefer to engage with pictures which I've chosen myself out of the welter of unidentified pictures, without the intrusion of too much personal context - Ilike to be a detective, and dislike being an impresario.

  Luc Sante

  Too Much, Detectives, Intrusion

  "Permanent Outsider: Interview with Luc Sante". Art South Africa Interview, artafricamagazine.org. November 25, 2010.

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• You're not going to stay in business, the business of making movies very long because you need the resources in order to keep going. So you have to try and find a niche audience or some kind of audience that has the same likes, dislikes and aesthetic sensibilities that you have.

  George Lucas

  Order, Long, Trying

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I got to dislike parties, like Jefferson and Madison. I think they're harmful. But the system is flawed so badly. I like what Plato said, long ago. Democracy is fit only for a small country. Can't survive in a large country.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Country, Plato, Party

  "Verge Q+A: Dr. Jack Kevorkian". Interview with Howie Kahn, www.gq.com. June 28, 2010.

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• I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

  Brad Feld

  Book, Reading

  Source: money.cnn.com

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• We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Talking, Explanation, Needed

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.13, Beacon Press

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• I dislike allegory wherever I smell it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Smell, Allegory

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