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

  Rose Kennedy

  Mirrors, Looks, Appearance

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

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Hunting

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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 am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Hands, Honor

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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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• I love you even when you're sick and look disgusting.

  Colin Firth

  Love You, Cheesy Love, Love Actually

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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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• 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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• Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Funny, Morning, Time

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• If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Work, Humble, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.366, Penguin

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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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• Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.

  Rider Strong

  People, Covering, Fluid

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. September 11, 2003.

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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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• Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hands, Lines, Lasts

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• The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dirt, Cleaning, Purification

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.276, Modern Library

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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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