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... I do not mind odious young men; it is when they are charming that I button up the pockets of my sympathy.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange.
— Philip Sidney
A Prince should esteem the great, but must not make himself odious to the people.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.
— Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
'I shall vomit,' said Hugh, 'if you persist in pestering me with all that odious rot.'
— Vladimir Nabokov
The odious little dogs that French people seemed to like so much rushed out at him as he rode by, barking furiously.
— Paul Bowles
The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.
— Robert H. Jackson
You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.
— Emile M. Cioran
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
— Tacitus
Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.
— Teresa Of Avila
Comparisons are odious.
— Evelyn Waugh
One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.
— Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
— Samuel Richardson
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
Oh, there you are, you odious little prawn...
— Alan Bradley
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs ... of our barbarous ancestors.
— Guy De Maupassant
You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.
— William Shakespeare
Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings.
— Richard Stallman
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
— Honore De Balzac
Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.
— Thomas Sprat
The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.
— Edward Gibbon
Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.
— Frederic Chopin
We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.
— John Sherman
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
— Norton Juster
The word 'love,' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.
— Honore De Balzac
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.
— Mark Twain
WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.
— William Cobbett
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.
— Richard Steele
Few practices are as odious as commenting-out code. Don't do this!
— Robert C. Martin
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.
— James Gibbons
But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.
— F. E. Adcock
Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.
— Benjamin Franklin
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
— John Stuart Mill
Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
— Virginia Woolf
Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it.
— Nick Harkaway
I think comparisons are odious.
— John Madden
The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
— Claude Pepper
Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.
— Pierre Corneille
But let other pens treat of sex and sexuality; we quit such odious subjects as soon as we can.
— Virginia Woolf
