Dislike Quotes - Page 21

• The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping-master in a slave plantation.

  Frank Knight

  Jobs, Exercise, People

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• I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar.

  Danilo Kis

  People, Scratches, Scar

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• Creative people like to think in unconventional ways, dislike rules, are easily bored, are independent, like to experiment, and enjoy being their own bosses. Basically the same traits found in most criminals and sociopaths

  Duncan Long

  Independent, Thinking, People

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• The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

  Brendan Behan

  Thinking, Irish Writers, Detest

  Brendan Behan (2014). “Behan Complete Plays”, p.280, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys.

  Martial

  Lying, Mean, Two

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.55

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• A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great hero, and yet he may have an unseemly passion, or an unpaid tailor. But the British public does not understand this. ... It thinks, unhappily or happily as you may choose to consider, that genius should keep the whole ten commandments. Now, genius is conspicuous for breaking them.

  Ouida

  Hero, Passion, Men

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• What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

  Andre Gide

  Prayer, Self, Moments

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• All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Dislike Someone, Wish

  "The Story of My Life". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1932.

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• To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.

  Sallust

  Likes And Dislikes, Likes, Bonds Of Friendship

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• I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book I wrote, not on what I say in letters to friends, not on my husband and my home life, the way I dress, my likes and dislikes, et cetera. My book belongs to anyone who has the price, but nothing of me belongs to the public.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Husband, Book, Home

  Margaret Mitchell (1986). “Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind letters, 1936-1949”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike.

  Dolly Parton

  Fear, People, Knows

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• The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not.

  Joseph Hall

  Taken, Eye, Fasting

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• How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

  Joseph Hall

  Hate, Calling, Holiness

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.505

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• The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail. And whereas the unlike is normally situated at a safe distance, the Jews bring the unlike into the heart of every milieu, and must there defend a frontier line as large as the world.

  Israel Zangwill

  Distance, Heart, Law

  Israel Zangwill (1921). “The Voice of Jerusalem”

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• I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.

  Martha Graham

  Kissing, Dislike Me, Apathetic

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality, coexistence, dislike, inbred differences and love despite knowledge I learned from my four younger siblings.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sibling, Differences, People

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• Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sight, Long, People

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense and of cheapness.

  Emily Post

  Play, Honor, His Love

  Emily Post (1945). “Children are People: And Ideal Parents are Comrades”

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• I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.

  Freya Stark

  People, Moral, Aim

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• I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

  Freya Stark

  People, Anvils, Virtue

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

  Ilka Chase

  Men, Thinking, Talking

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• I really dislike when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental. As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well. I've been experimenting with these things myself in my own books.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Book, Work Out, People

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• Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike one of the parts you secretly think is one of your little gems.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Littles, Sometimes

  "Margaret Atwood Ruins a Marriage, Talks Memes, Politics in Reddit AMA". Interview with Jia Tolentino, jezebel.com. December 30, 2014.

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• We can find reasons to dislike anyone. But it's what you focus on and appreciate in a person that cultivates a positive relationship.

  David J. Lieberman

  Appreciate, Focus, Positive Relationship

  Dr. David J. Lieberman, Ph.D. (2010). “Make Peace With Anyone: Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement”, p.107, Macmillan

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