Loathe Quotes

• I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Vanity, Narcissism

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• I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

  Simon Cowell

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

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• I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Fashion, Luxury, One Thing

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• Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.90, Penguin

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• I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

  Penelope Keith

  Nature, Grandchildren, Tree

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• We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Science, Expression, Advice

  "Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. at 630". Dissenting opinion, November 10, 1919.

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• I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, People, Pudding

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• Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Hurt, Heart

  Rob Sheffield (2013). “Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

  Henry Miller

  Study, Crime, Mankind

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it.

  Elton John

  I Can

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• I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

  Elton John

  Beautiful, Garden, Two

  "Elton John Interview GNOMEO AND JULIET". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2011.

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• For some to love you, some must loathe you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Love You

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• Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

  Douglas Adams

  Hitchhiking, Said, Paranoid

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.96, Pan Macmillan

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• As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

  Harper Lee

  Joy, Curiosity, Anticipation

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• Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Funny, Sad

  "As I See Religion". Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1932.

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• Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cutting, Reality, Imagination

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 07, 2011

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• I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

  Francis Bacon

  Self, Portraits, Portraiture

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• How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Attitude, Hate, Nice

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.542, Cambridge University Press

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• Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Country, Beach, Sleep

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• And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Men, People

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money.

  S. J. Perelman

  Writing, Hands, Believer

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• Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

  John Mason Brown

  Friendship, Names, People

  John Mason Brown (1950). “Still seeing things”

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• I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Dollars

  "Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind". TV Special, November 22, 2010.

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• I think the deafness affects me more than I realise I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Party, Tired, Thinking

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• I loathe, I hate, chick flicks.

  Helen Mirren

  Hate, Chicks, Chick Flick

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