Top 309 Disgust Quotes & Sayings

The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.

Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.

Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person’s eyes or to experience that person’s feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.

Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.

I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.

Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar.

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple.

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust.

Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it.

My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust.

Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

Disgust is intuitive microbiology

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

An audience is the perfect thing to unleash venom and hate on. It doesn't necessarily mean you hate everyone in the audience but when you've got a so-called adoring mass in front of you, it's a perfect target for that kind of disgust. Sometimes you find yourself in a position where you're venting your disgust on an audience and a lot of them keep coming back 'cos they actually like that aspect. In a way that diffuses the feeling and you don't gel the same release.

"Women," he said in disgust. I wasn't sure whether we was referring to me or nuns.

All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust.

Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

…I don’t wish to meet people. They disgust me. Increasingly so. But I must have milk.

OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.

Of course it would disgust me to tell anyone how to live.

The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.

'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift through doors and walls, and their smell of death, disgust us not more than we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously.

Did you know that she was cyborg?” asked a woman in an unhidden tone of disgust. Kai stared at her, appearing confused, then let his gaze dance over the crowd. He shuffled his feet closer to the podium, a wrinkle forming on the bridge of his nose. Cinder bit the inside of her cheek and braced herself for adamant disgust. Who would ever invite a cyborg to the ball? But instead, Kai said simply, “I don’t see that her being cyborg is relevant. Next question?” Cinder’s metal fingers jolted.

Pity is always twinged with disgust.

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.

Jesus Christ: A common exclamation indicating surprise, disgust, anger or bewilderment.

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

Trump is a symptom of widespread disgust, not the head of a carefully crafted ideological movement with a checklist of issues.

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

All those big words produce disgust today.

It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

Of all facial expressions, which is the worst to have aimed at you? Wouldn't you agree it's disgust?

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.