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I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres. — Italo Calvino

Love the offender, yet detest the offense. — Alexander Pope

Grandeur I detest. — Jane Austen

If there is one thing I detest, it's when people transform their powerlessness or alienation into a creed. — Muriel Barbery

All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own. — Michael Drayton

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. — Helen Clark

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I am beginning to loathe & detest all that Hollywood represents. — Charles R. Jackson

Why was it that whenever I started to not detest him, he did something like this? — Catherine Clark

I detest a man who knows that he knows. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution. — Millard Fillmore

One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him. — Mahatma Gandhi

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. — Stephen Leacock

I do love her, and that's odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else. — John Steinbeck

It's amazing how long we put up with things we detest for the sake of a quiet life. — Tami Egonu

I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors. — Cleveland Amory

American men are so embarrassed about napping," she said. "They think it is some sort of feminine indulgence. I detest a man who can't nap. — Peter Cameron

I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic! — John Lahr

More often than not, the things we detest and judge in others are a reflection of the things we cannot accept about ourselves. — Iyanla Vanzant

Hate is by far the greatest pleasure; men love in haste, but detest in leisure. — George Gordon Byron

This letter has gotten foolish, and I think you know how I detest looking like a fool. But still I do. For you. — Kiera Cass

Above all the mighty detest change. — R. Scott Bakker

I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another — Homer

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. — Jonathan Swift

So much easier to give. I detest asking. — Kiana Davenport

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery. — Tallulah Bankhead

I only really like to watch things like 'Time Team.' I'd rather be out walking the dog. It's all reality TV, which, as an actor, I detest. — Kevin Whately

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? — Alexander Pope

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. — E.W. Howe

Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annhilation of one of us. — Mary Shelley

In order to destroy this system which we so much detest we are creating conditions over here which run contrary to our dearest p-principles. — Winston Graham

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest. — Christine Lahti

For the mindful god does detest untimely growth. — Friedrich Holderlin

I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know? — Jennifer Jason Leigh

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most. — John Lydon

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish
the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers
the ones that think. — Brendan Behan

I love you, William. I know I cannot ask you to be something you detest, no matter how much I want to be with you. But I love you. — Eli Easton

I want to hate you, to loathe you, to detest you, but for all my attempts, the need to touch you is ten times more powerful. — Nely Cab

depressing. I asked myself: 'Where is God?' I came to detest the sanctimonious attitude of people toward violence, always saying 'it's God's will'. — Anton Szandor LaVey

I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame. — Dawid Janowski

Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked). — J.R.R. Tolkien

I detest these underdone men, he thought coldly. Boiled looking! Ought to be shoved back in the oven; just one more minute would do it. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down. — H.L. Mencken

Do not detest the misfortunes that befall you, for what you detest may be the cause of your salvation and what you like may be the cause of your ruin. — Al-Hasan Al-Basri

We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence. — Sunday Adelaja

Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship. — Shirley Temple

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. — H.L. Mencken

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. — J.K. Rowling

Solitude, which I both crave and detest. — Jessica Park

The more you oppress
the more they distress
and the more they protest
the more you detest. — Aram Seriteratai

I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard. — Kage Baker

I detest those who deceive me... — Steve Berry

People who detest their sanity love to tell you they are insane, authors included...and all for a few bucks. Their charlatan madness is masturbation. — W.T. Shad

I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries. — H.L. Mencken

I do detest the human race as a whole, but some groups are more deserving than others, — James D. Sass

Complainers detest each other. — Mason Cooley

Wandering around the mall and giggling at magazines doesn't interest me. I've never enjoyed shopping. I detest shoes. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual. — Lord Byron

I detest common heroes and moderate feelings, the sort that exist in real life — Gustave Flaubert

I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it. — Leonardo Sciascia

I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter. — William S. Burroughs

We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone. — Adam Savage

Have I ever said how much I detest the sound of screaming humanity? — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me. — Nicolas Chamfort

Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous. — Perry Brass

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside. — Paulo Coelho

I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode. — John Andre

He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it. — Mark Twain

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest. — Samuel Johnson

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment. — Amanda Palmer

Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance. — Anthony Liccione

In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Man who has lived through so many storms will either worship the tranquillity or will detest it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. — Nelson Mandela

I detest mediocrity.

- Benjamin Blake — Pseudonymous Bosch

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand. — Baruch Spinoza

One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty. — Barry Ritholtz

I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all — Gustave Flaubert

You will hate me.
You will detest the choices that I have made.
You won't understand me at all. — A Meredith Walters

And thus it is that in the same affliction the wicked detest God and blaspheme, while the good pray and praise. — Augustine Of Hippo

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them. — Baruch Spinoza

I detest mediocrity. — Pseudonymous Bosch

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. — Virginia Woolf

I'm not wholesome at all. I detest homey things like cooking and bed-making and Peter Pan collars. I like to wear slacks and play golf. — Joan Caulfield

I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time. — Felix Dennis

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics. — Ken Livingstone

I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write. — Voltaire

The greater our own level of narcissism, the more we detest it in others. — Steve Maraboli

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical. — Peter Ackroyd

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. — George Gordon Byron

I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense. — Gary Kemp

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices. — Renee Vivien

Werle: "I believe there is no one in the world you detest as you do me."
Gregers: "I have seen you at too close quarters. — Henrik Ibsen