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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• 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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• 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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• 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

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

  Rose Kennedy

  Mirrors, Looks, Appearance

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

  Tab Hunter

  People, Importance

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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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• 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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• My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Attitude

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.247, Princeton University Press

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• There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Men, Chess, Beaten

  Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

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• Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

  Jeremy Piven

  Jobs, People, Done

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• It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

  Victor Garber

  People, Trying, World

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

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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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• 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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• Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Principles, Purpose, Use

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.

  Diego Rivera

  Hurt, Happy Friday, Victim

  Diego Rivera (1960). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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 have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

  Joanna Baillie

  Mean, Men, Laughing

  Joanna Baillie (1806). “A Series of Plays: The election. Ethwald. The second marriage. 3d ed”, p.9

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• If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.

  Sean Penn

  Sarcastic, Peers, Ifs

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• Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

  Esther Dyson

  Father, Nice, People

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