Top 191 Detest Quotes & Sayings

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

I detest war; it ruins conversation

Did you loathe and detest the Bush administration? If so, you'd probably say its ideas were horrible and their execution worse. Did you not loathe and detest the Bush administration? In that case, you might say its ideas were pretty good - only the execution often left something to be desired.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

I loathe and detest heavy metal.

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to destructure, to bleed, to preserve, to recognize, to see, to hide, to show, to tell, to think, to stop thinking, to detest, to love, to act, to be still, to laugh, to cry, to detest, but mostly to love for now I am human, but in a few short years I will be something else.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

I don't detest Arsenal because of the way Wenger treated me.

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!

I detest those who deceive me.

I detest audiences. Not in their individual components but en masse... I think they are a force of evil.

I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.

In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places!

Complainers detest each other.

I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense.

I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter.

I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

Being a dancer I've got the idea that through discipline and hard work, you can develop the ability to be in a different dimension within seconds. You can be vomiting, you can detest who you are, detest the world, detest every single thing, and the next moment you are in the light and you glow. You forget everything, and you are just flying. When you're onstage, you are someone else. Beyoncé is very conscious of this. She said to me, "I'm another person when I'm onstage." And I said, "Oh yes, you are! You are an animal when you are onstage. You are a stage animal."

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.

I detest people who lie. I can't stand it.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

Wandering around the mall and giggling at magazines doesn't interest me. I've never enjoyed shopping. I detest shoes.

There's two or three managers I can't stand. I detest them and they know that.

Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.

I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

I really detest brunch. I think it's a waste of a good day. Detest is a little too severe, but I would say I'm not a brunch person.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

I love spicy food, so I'm not sure why I have this aversion to wasabi, but I really detest it.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.

I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising, voices making announcements, aerodynamism, boy scouts, the smell of moth balls, events of the moment, and drunken people.

Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as much as they detest most of our politics. Instead of rationally debating subjects like abortion or gay rights, they condemn as immoral those who favor choice and tolerance. They disown their own dark side and magnify everyone else's until, at the extreme, doctors are murdered in the name of protecting life. I wonder, who is this God they invoke, who is so petty and mean? Is God really against gun control and food stamps for poor children?

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.