Loathe Quotes

• I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Vanity, Narcissism

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• I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

  Simon Cowell

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

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• I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Fashion, Luxury, One Thing

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• Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.90, Penguin

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• We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Science, Expression, Advice

  "Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. at 630". Dissenting opinion, November 10, 1919.

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• I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

  Penelope Keith

  Nature, Grandchildren, Tree

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• I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, People, Pudding

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• Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Hurt, Heart

  Rob Sheffield (2013). “Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

  Henry Miller

  Study, Crime, Mankind

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it.

  Elton John

  I Can

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• I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

  Elton John

  Beautiful, Garden, Two

  "Elton John Interview GNOMEO AND JULIET". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2011.

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• For some to love you, some must loathe you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Love You

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• Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

  Douglas Adams

  Hitchhiking, Said, Paranoid

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.96, Pan Macmillan

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• As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

  Harper Lee

  Joy, Curiosity, Anticipation

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• Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Funny, Sad

  "As I See Religion". Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1932.

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• Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cutting, Reality, Imagination

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 07, 2011

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• How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Attitude, Hate, Nice

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.542, Cambridge University Press

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• I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

  Francis Bacon

  Self, Portraits, Portraiture

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• It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such people have a hard time winning followers. But an individual who is gracious, who is attractive, who smiles and flatters and praises - that is a person who can lead whole nations to disaster. Who would not want to follow such a man or woman? Everyone is drawn to beauty and wit.

  Sharon Shinn

  Hard Times, Winning, Men

  Sharon Shinn (2009). “Gateway”, p.71, Penguin

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• You are out of control, Rand al'Thor,' she declared. I do what must be done,' he said, speaking now from the shadows. He sounded exhausted. ... I hate what you just did, Rand,' Nynaeve snarled. 'No, "Hate" isn't strong enough. I loathe what you've done. What has happened to you?' Test him!' Rand whispered, voice dangerous. 'Before condemning me, let us first determine if my sins have achieved anything beyond my own damnation.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Strong, Hate, Voice

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• employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Denial, Century, Function

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• Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?

  Paulo Coelho

  Unhappy, Magazines, Slave

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• Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.

  Emma Goldman

  Hate, Law, Long

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.33, 谷月社

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• There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. […] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[…]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Humility, Pride

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• I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

  Ayn Rand

  Giving, Novelists, Philosopher

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.81, Penguin

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