Disgusting Quotes

• Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside

  Rosanna Arquette

  Art, Hurt, Jobs

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• Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Baby, Buddhist

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• The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

  Dennis Weaver

  Vegetarianism, People, Meat

  "The vegetarians". Book by Rynn Berry, p. 64, 1979.

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• I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

  Shelley Winters

  Religious, Retirement, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.

  Jim Rohn

  Change, Two, Emotion

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 17, 2017

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• Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.

  Diane Ackerman

  Soul, Body, Danger

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis”, p.267, Vintage

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• The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Pleasure, Greatest Pleasures

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Harris Rackham (1977). “De Oratore: Book III”

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• The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

  Rose Kennedy

  Mirrors, Looks, Appearance

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• Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

  Dave Barry

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.104, Ballantine Books

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• Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

  William Hazlitt

  Hatred, Littles, Indifference

  William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.177

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• The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Cockroaches, Experts, Wrecks

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.342, Macmillan

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• I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight.

  Linda McCartney

  Marijuana, Thinking, Drug

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• I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

  George Grosz

  Fighting, Games, Self

  George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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• I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Hunting

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• People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

  Tab Hunter

  People, Importance

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• I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Romantic, Believe, Sleep

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• I really just think it's disgusting when people - to actually say that you want to be famous, it's just gross. There's nothing wrong with fame, but to seek out the spotlight just to be on TV for the sake of being on TV, and to put your children on there, I think, is especially disgusting.

  Jon Glaser

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

  Rowan Williams

  Anger, Culture, Growing

  Rowan Williams (2013). “Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

  Steve Martin

  Im Sorry, Apology, Gentleman

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• It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease

  Jesse Helms

  Disease, Responsible, Deliberate

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• Men really disgust me if they don't have a nice smile, nice lips and nice teeth...They have too many disgusting habits - like scratching themselves all the time. And it's really weird how guys think that passing gas is the funniest thing in the world. They love to do that thing in front of girls and laugh about it.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Girl, Nice, Men

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• Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.

  Katy Perry

  Thinking, Fame, Products

  "Katy Perry 'Tired of Being Famous': Who Should Stop Complaining About Fame?", www.foxnews.com. April 10, 2012.

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• This little kid pointed at me and said, 'You look disgusting!' That was the first time I thought maybe I did. I decided I'd better start eating. I'm just thankful that I made it through with relatively few scars.

  Susan Dey

  Kids, Thankfulness, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.

  Margaret Cho

  Looks, Ugly, Stalking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Business, Talking, Directors

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