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• I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.

  Fannie Hurst

  War, Struggle, Men

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• Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Men, Mediocrity

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• Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.

  Francoise Mallet-Joris

  Perspective, Doe, Virtue

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• A few of my books, over the years, have been optioned for film. The subject matter of my books, however, is not exactly conducive to Hollywood film treatment. If and when a 'big-budget' film is ever made based on one of my books, my fans and I will more than likely loathe it because it won't be true to its source. That's almost a given.

  Richard Laymon

  Book, Years, Ifs And

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• I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way.

  Maurice Sendak

  Hate, School, Way

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• In man or woman, but far most in man,
  And most of all in man that ministers,
  And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe
  All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn:
  Object of my implacable disgust.

  William Cowper

  Men, Perfect, Soul

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.140

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• Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Venice, Mistress

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere”, p.323

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• Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these inordinate, unseemly, deformed, false, shameful, disgraceful passions; that my confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. Alas! woe, woe! O me, how long?

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Passion, Long, Confusion

  Lancelot Andrewes (bp. of Winchester.) (1883). “The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes”

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• Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

  Aleister Crowley

  Selfish, Love Is, Ideas

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. Eminem's new song about his kid - isn't it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don't like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Dog, Character

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• Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

  Ian McShane

  Character, Play, Actors

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• Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Hate, Thinking, Sight

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• Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.

  Horace

  Boys, Luxury, Persian

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• Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.

  Studs Terkel

  Air, People, Ordinary

  Studs Terkel, Sydney Lewis (2010). “Touch and Go: A Memoir (Large Print 16pt)”, p.244, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common

  Callimachus

  Roaming, Lovers, Common

  Epigram 28 in R. Pfeiffer (ed.) 'Callimachus' (1949-53)

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• I do loathe explanations.

  James M. Barrie

  Explanation

  "My Lady Nicotine". Book by James Matthew Barrie. Chapter 16, 1890.

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• You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do it under the compulsion that makes any artist the victim he is, but they loathe the process of sitting down trying to turn thoughts into reasonable sentences.

  Harper Lee

  Hate, Writing, Artist

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• I loathe the idea of going onstage in a T-shirt and jeans.

  Martin Gore

  Jeans, Ideas, T Shirt

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• I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.

  William Habington

  Country, Hate, Pride

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• There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Names, Ideas, People

  Miguel de Unamuno (2015). “Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote”, p.16, Princeton University Press

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• If you were God’s children you would loathe the very thought of the world’s evil joys, and your question would not be, “How far may we be like the world?” but your one cry would be, “How far can we get away from the world? How much can we come out from it?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Evil, Joy

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.420, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.

  Jane Porter

  Apples, Fruition, Sticks

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• I hate, loathe, and despise Christmas. It's a time when single people have to take cover or get out of town.

  Kristin Hunter

  Christmas, Hate, People

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• The thing is, I hate political comedy. I personally loathe it.

  Christian Finnegan

  Hate, Political, Politics

  "Think Sits Down With Comedian Christian Finnegan". The Stony Brook Press Interview, sbpress.com. September 12, 2010.

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• I absolutely loathe and hate the work... But I love youth. I realise how lucky it is being with youth, and what an honour that is. Nowhere else could a fat 47-year-old speak to people as young as this. They'd think you were a paedophile.

  Louise Wilson

  Hate, Love You, Thinking

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