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Tag Name "Detests" (13)

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It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
Luigi Pirandello
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That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.
Simone de Beauvoir
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The Jews detests the spirit of the nation in the midst of which they live.
Bernard Lazare
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
Desiderius Erasmus
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The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greasy cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.
H. L. Mencken
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The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ
John Stott
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You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.
Josephine Humphreys
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Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
Sophocles
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Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life and whoever recognises the worldly life, the trials and tribulations (of life) become slight for him.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
Confucius
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.
George Washington
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Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because it's a mark of what a classy, cool, sort of place it is. You can't tame everyone in America, as much as these people would like to, into some kind of small-town, Southern community.
Irvine Welsh