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I am so satiated with the great number of detestable books with which we are inundated that I am reduced to punting at faro.
— Voltaire
He was a particularly detestable boy. He reminded me of myself when I was younger.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
— Charles Bukowski
One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.
— Honore De Balzac
Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.
— Jean Baptiste Massillon
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
— Samuel Butler
People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others ...
— Randall Jarrell
Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.
— George Washington
Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
— C.S. Lewis
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
— Richard Steele
A detestable, viscous place populated by slugs
— Paul Majkut
How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable
all at the same time? — James Clavell
all at the same time? — James Clavell
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
— William E. Gladstone
If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.
— Jakaya Kikwete
It is one of the most detestable habits of a Liliputian mind to credit other people with its own malignant pettiness.
— Honore De Balzac
How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?
— Gabrielle Hamilton
Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.
— Maurice Druon
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
— Xun Zi
Jealousy is a detestable motive.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We must subdue our detestable habit of shaking hands with prosperous rascals and fawning upon the merely rich.
— Ambrose Bierce
What is detestable in a pig is more detestable in a boy.
— Charles Dickens
It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
His [Donald Trump] words were foul and detestable and we all should acknowledge that.
— Kit Malthouse
What is passable in youth is detestable in later age
— Jane Austen
As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
— H. Rider Haggard
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
— Oscar Wilde
Forcing someone into drug addiction is like stabbing a corpse everyday, the most detestable crime.
— Sumit Agarwal
I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable.
— Oscar Wilde
What is so detestable about war is that it reduces the individual to complete insignificance.
— David Gascoyne
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
— Curt Flood
Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death.
— William Shakespeare
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
— Oscar Wilde
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
— Karel Capek
Gina. I wish to goodness that detestable thing had never set his foot inside our doors!
— Henrik Ibsen
The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
— Oscar Wilde
Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
— Ambrose Bierce
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
— Romain Rolland
Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
— Charles Darwin
Anything to vary this detestable monotony.
— Charles Dickens