Loathe Quotes - Page 3

• My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world.

  Margaret Drabble

  Iraq, United States, Done

  "I loathe America, and what it has done to the rest of the world" by Margaret Drabble, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 8, 2003.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

  Gore Vidal

  Animal, House, Might

  "How guest Hans Christian Andersen destroyed his friendship with Dickens" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2017.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

  Stephen Stills

  Art, Giving Up, People

  8 Copy quote

• Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.

  Russell Baker

  School, Yale, Ivy

  8 Copy quote

• Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.

  Azar Nafisi

  Sex, Islamic, Republic

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.329, Random House

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

  Fiona Shaw

  Theatre, Sometimes, Theater

  4 Copy quote

• Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.

  Laozi

  Compassion, People, Water

  5 Copy quote

• Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.

  Robert Herrick

  Men, Discontent, Stills

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weller Singer (1856). “Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.128

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

  Brandon Sanderson

  People, Gains, Code

  Brandon Sanderson (2017). “Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)”, p.1909, Macmillan

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. […] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[…]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Humility, Pride

  21 Copy quote

• I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

  Voltaire

  Stupid, Heart, Love Life

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: or, Optimism”

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• You are out of control, Rand al'Thor,' she declared. I do what must be done,' he said, speaking now from the shadows. He sounded exhausted. ... I hate what you just did, Rand,' Nynaeve snarled. 'No, "Hate" isn't strong enough. I loathe what you've done. What has happened to you?' Test him!' Rand whispered, voice dangerous. 'Before condemning me, let us first determine if my sins have achieved anything beyond my own damnation.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Strong, Hate, Voice

  5 Copy quote

• I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart to see him suffer like this - but where my genuine concern for him ended and where my self-interest began, I could not tell: no servant can ever tell what the motives of his heart are. "Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing? "We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

  Aravind Adiga

  Heart, Genuine Concern, Self

  10 Copy quote

• Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?

  Paulo Coelho

  Unhappy, Magazines, Slave

  4 Copy quote

• Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.

  Karen Cushman

  Bones, Corpus

  Karen Cushman (2014). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.72, Pan Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?

  Aravind Adiga

  Genuine Concern, Loathing, Masters

  "The White Tiger". Book by Aravind Adiga, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2008.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe [Andrei] your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can't trust them as if they were.

  Ayn Rand

  Dream, Sleep, Sacrifice

  4 Copy quote

• It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such people have a hard time winning followers. But an individual who is gracious, who is attractive, who smiles and flatters and praises - that is a person who can lead whole nations to disaster. Who would not want to follow such a man or woman? Everyone is drawn to beauty and wit.

  Sharon Shinn

  Hard Times, Winning, Men

  Sharon Shinn (2009). “Gateway”, p.71, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

  Euripides

  Gratitude, Grief, Grieving

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.64, University of Chicago Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

  Ayn Rand

  Giving, Novelists, Philosopher

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.81, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Denial, Century, Function

  19 Copy quote

• Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.

  Emma Goldman

  Hate, Law, Long

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.33, 谷月社

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

  Virginia Woolf

  Power, Dominion, Imposition

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4295, Delphi Classics

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the women who drift in and out of their new lives, they are, as [one character] puts it, "involved in a variety of pharmaceutical experiments.

  Richard Schickel

  Children, Character, Wife

  6 Copy quote

• Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?

  Carson McCullers

  Doctors, Use

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  7 Copy quote

  Show source