Disgusting Quotes - Page 9

• There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the last, they will hate me, my reputation will forever be destroyed, my punishment earned, self-inflicted like this gunshot wound, and the world will finally know that I was the greatest feather man of them all.

  John Boyne

  Hate, Men, Self

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• What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Beautiful, Memories, Diaries

  Eugene O'Neill (1932). “Nine Plays”

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• When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal, disgusting, mean, low-lived fellow I met, was allowed by our laws to become absolute despot of as many men, women and children, as he could cheat, steal, or gamble money enough to buy,-when I have seen such men in actual ownership of helpless children, of young girls and women,-I have been ready to curse my country, to curse the human race!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Girl, Country, Children

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852). “Life Among the Lowly”, p.12

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• I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

  John Evelyn

  Play, Age, Saws

  E. S. de Beer (ed.) 'The Diary of John Evelyn' (1955) vol. 3, p. 304 (26 November 1661)

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• A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

  Richard Wagner

  Men, Wife, Political

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• Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity.

  Lee Salk

  Attitude, Children, Parent

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• It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Humanity, Mind, Weakness

  "Warren Hastings". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1851.

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• To be fair, I don't have a lot of clothes and you know, Einstein had the same outfit, five different times because he didn't want to spend energy trying to decide what to wear every day. It's pointless. I have a shirt that I wear when I'm not on stage and then I have a sweaty shirt that is so disgusting it would blow your mind.

  Sam Endicott

  Blow, Clothes, Mind

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• I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Talking, Names, Two

  "AICN COMICS!! @$$Holes Interview With Brian K. Vaughan!!". Interview with Cormorant, www.aintitcool.com. June 22, 2004.

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• I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.

  Denise Mina

  London, Grew Up, Feeding

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• Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations

  Jenny Holzer

  Situation, Response, Appropriate

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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• Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

  Arthur Ransome

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Understanding, Littles

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.206

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• In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak judgments by the lustre which they obtain from their union with excellence; but it is the business of those who presume to superintend the taste or morals of mankind to separate delusive combinations, and distinguish that which may be praised from that which can only be excused.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Excellence, Unions

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam”, p.173

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• Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Religious, Cities

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• All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn;
  Object of my implacable disgust.

  William Cowper

  Perfect, Scorn, Objects

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.154

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• In man or woman, but far most in man,
  And most of all in man that ministers,
  And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe
  All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn:
  Object of my implacable disgust.

  William Cowper

  Men, Perfect, Soul

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.140

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• It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage of civilians. They're not effective in any other real way. They've enough weapons for war.

  Angelina Jolie

  Hurt, Real, War

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• I often went entire days without speaking - unable to get a word in over my inner taskmaster, who never shut up: “You fat, disgusting slob, you'll never be thin enough, good enough, smart enough, tough or talented enough.

  Aimee Liu

  Smart, Tough, Shut Up

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• Celebrity! It's become the most disgusting word on the planet. It makes me sick to my stomach.

  Drew Barrymore

  Sick, Stomach, Planets

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• There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the Internet. It had nothing to do with the United States government, and it's one that we find disgusting and reprehensible. It's been offensive to many, many people around the world. That sparked violence in various parts of the world, including violence directed against Western facilities including our embassies and consulates.

  Susan Rice

  Government, People, United States

  "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, transcripts.cnn.com. September 16, 2012.

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• When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.

  Tyra Banks

  Girl, Summer, Mirrors

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• Find the video that has been so offensive to Muslims to be disgusting and reprehensible.

  Jay Carney

  Video, Offensive, Has Beens

  "President Obama's Benghazi lies unravel". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. May 06, 2013.

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• On a deeper level, if our sons are learning they are obscene, disgusting, and untrustworthy, is this the best preparation for fatherhood? And is it the best preparation for becoming a mother - to feel this way about her son?

  Warren Farrell

  Mother, Son, Preparation

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• For me, everyone I write of is real. I have little true say in what they want, what they do or end up as (or in). Their acts appall, enchant, disgust or astound me. Their ends fill me with retributive glee, or break my heart. I can only take credit (if I can even take credit for that) in reporting the scenario. This is not a disclaimer. Just a fact.

  Tanith Lee

  Real, Writing, Heart

  Innsmouth Free Press Interview, www.innsmouthfreepress.com.

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