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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. — Sydney Smith

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves. — August Strindberg

Better to be disliked than pitied. — Abba Eban

Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find. — Hesiod

FEW PEOPLE in American history have been as consistently disliked as the Puritans. — Jim Cullen

That's what he disliked about certain artists and writers. They interfered and pointed to everything as if you couldn't see it or read for yourself. — Frank McCourt

One of those middle-aged mediocrities so common in London clubs who have no enemies, but are thoroughly disliked by their friends; — Oscar Wilde

I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system. — Tony Harrison

I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game. — Albert Einstein

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida. — Walter Legge

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It is better to be disliked for being who you are than to be loved for who you are not. — Sherry Argov

Chandler again: "I have never liked anyone who disliked cats, because I've always found an element of acute selfishness in their dispositions. — The New Yorker

I've been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none. — Drake

You have to admit that most women who do something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone. — Francoise Gilot

I knew that people disliked me, and there always will be, but that's the price you pay for being in the limelight, so to speak. — Tyler Hamilton

From all I have heard, geniuses are people to be heartily disliked. — Agatha Christie

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest. — May Sarton

She disliked confidences, for they might lead to self-knowledge and to that king of terrors - Light. — E. M. Forster

I realised that I really disliked him, and I knew exactly why: he didn't know the difference between being solemn and being serious. — John Cleese

Ruggles disliked Christopher Tietjens with the inveterate dislike of the man who revels in gossip for the man who never gossips. — Ford Madox Ford

Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men. — Ron Paul

He liked as he liked; he seems to have liked everybody, but especially those whom everybody disliked him for liking. — G.K. Chesterton

Come, my songs, let us speak of perfection - / We shall get ourselves rather disliked. — Ezra Pound

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities. — Bernard Berenson

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly. — Bryant H. McGill

If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence. — Jan Morris

While he disliked the idea of scaring her, ignorance had killed more than its fair share of people, and he wanted her aware of the danger. — Grace Draven

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness — Tablo

If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy. — Scott Adams

Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference. — Mason Cooley

Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it. — Michael Douglas

The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it's constantly this fire at my heels. — Stephan Pastis

One escapes; but one always has to come back. I found too I disliked not being in command of myself. — Dorothy Dunnett

If I disliked managing, I liked umpiring even less. — Bobby Wallace

We live in a world where the strongest win, and the strongest must expect to be disliked. — Bernard Cornwell

Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked 'Howl's Moving Castle.' Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing. — Stephen Hunter

I don't want to stay where I'm not wanted. I don't want to stay where I'm disliked. — Charles Bukowski

I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death. — Martha Graham

I never disliked humanity more than when I watched how indifferently they reacted to creation — Keith Buckley

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem. — Dawn French

Though old himself, he disliked old men. — John Updike

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired. — Roger Nash Baldwin

When fear and suffering are disliked by me and others equally what is so special about me that I protect myself and not the other? — Santideva

How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often. — Lev Grossman

I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern. — Ira Glass

In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I just like men. — Dorothy Stratten

He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened. — Margaret Mitchell

He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy. — Erik Larson

It was tempting to take refuge in feelings of British superiority, although I disliked myself for it and hoped it didn't show. — John Mole

In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor. — Dan Graham

Ethan didn't mind his blood being taken - he just disliked the fact that it had to be sucked through a needle in order to do it. — Belinda G. Buchanan

The arrogant half smile I disliked so much tipped up one corner of his swollen lips. You're barely glowing now. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children. — Beverly Cleary

In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people ... and I disliked them all. — Abraham Lincoln

Frosty girl, plain and colorless, who protected herself against a world she disliked by a mask-like expression and a hypertrophy of intellect. — Isaac Asimov

I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this. — Ernest Newman

I would rather be disliked for who I am than to be respected for who I'm not. — Cecil Murphey

He had always disliked what he could easily have; he had a passion for the untouched. — Rumer Godden

She dated me for 3/4 yrs and liked me so much that she married me and disliked me so much that she divorced me after 4 yrs. — Honeya

Bond found this irksome. He disliked being cosseted. It gave him claustrophobia. — Ian Fleming

To mind being disliked by a woman you don't desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense. — Wendell Berry

I disliked numbers, and they didn't think much of me either. — R. J. Anderson

It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be. — Dawn Gluskin

Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked. — Gerald Durrell

I don't mind being disliked - I will be the one to step up and say what needs to be said if it helps one woman who comes after me. — Rose McGowan

Make love! He disliked the phrase. Could one make love? — Pearl S. Buck

Masson disliked and respected the ferocious little rodents, for he knew the danger that lurked in their flashing, needle-sharp fangs; — H.P. Lovecraft

Menstruating is the only part of being female I have ever disliked. Everything else feels like a unique and covetable privilege, but this? — Lena Dunham

We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well. — Freddie Mercury

One of the few advantages of being disliked is that you don't need to fret over what others think about you. — Amish Tripathi

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. — Oscar Wilde

It's a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn't always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her. — Laurence Harvey

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply. — John Buchan

Peace you can claim for yourself without being disliked by anyone, without any sense of loss, and without any pangs of spirit. — Seneca.

I should think less of myself if no one disliked me. — Kate Morton

To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it, because it makes them disliked. — Blaise Pascal

I disliked promises on principle because my conscience made me keep them — Robin McKinley

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are. — Agnes Repplier

It's better to be disliked for who you are than liked for who you are not. — Steven Aitchison

Many would have disliked to live, if possessed of the peculiar features of Arthur Jermyn, but he had been a poet and a scholar and had not minded. — H.P. Lovecraft

People have disliked me. You know, in high school, I wasn't the most popular kid. I wasn't the nerdiest kid. I was kind of in the middle. — Jimmy Fallon

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. — Yogi Berra

Sighing heavily, for he disliked violence generally and murder in particular, Cabal set off to commit violent murder. — Jonathan L. Howard

I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected — Jackie Robinson