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Tag Name "Detestable" (43)

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Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out.
Emile M. Cioran
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The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever.
Charles Darwin
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One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.
Honore de Balzac
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Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.
Maurice Druon
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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
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You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and flamboyance is not illegal. It may be detestable, it may be offensive, but it's not illegal.
Don King
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It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.
Charles Dickens
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Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
Ambrose Bierce
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
Confucius
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I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
Romain Rolland
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... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but find an excuse for loving it. Everything is a matter of points of view, and misfortune is often only the sign of a false interpretation of life.
Henry de Montherlant
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Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!
Virginia Woolf
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Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
C. S. Lewis
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The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.
Voltaire
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As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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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
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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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
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