(9 quotes found)
“I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.”
Lord Byron
“Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.”
Westbrook Pegler
“I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all”
Gustave Flaubert
“Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.”
Desiderius Erasmus
“I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man”
Nelson Mandela
“And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.”
Bible
“How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?”
Alexander Pope
“Most of the clients that I represent in a criminal case I detest.”
Joseph Ball
