Top 111 Distasteful Quotes & Sayings

While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

There should be no distasteful tasks in one's life. If you just hate to do a thing, that hatred for it develops body-destructive toxins, and you become fatigued very soon.

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

You can be authentic without being distasteful or disrespectful.

Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to get it.

Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it.

I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

There's a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It's somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if you have to work at it, you're somehow a loser.

I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himself... in exchange for money. Because of the passivity it entails, this is a difficult and, for many, a distasteful role.

Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

I think it's very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don't talk about. That's why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.

It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

There is not a racist bone in my dad's body. He doesn't even laugh at distasteful jokes.

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

I love 'I'm A Celebrity...' and those kinds of things. But sometimes I find reality stuff a bit distasteful.

Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal.

I find this western idea that ageing is wrong really distasteful. You should be happy that you look 50, you look 60, you've got to 70 - it should be an achievement.

There are certain things I would never write about - anything that's too distasteful. I think that you can withhold information.

Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.

When I would go over to friends' houses, and they would be zoning out to Mario Brothers, I just found it the most distasteful thing.

Primary revelation came through Jesus Christ, and I find it distasteful that additional divine finger prints should appear in nature.

Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.

Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.

Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.

To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.

The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many persons. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians.

I've seen [Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human being and always has been, always made me want to take a shower.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

'Cougar' has become so distasteful. I really hate that expression.

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when you do that.

Reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace.

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

As a collegiate, I think you spend 50 percent of your time recruiting. It is a distasteful process.

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint - no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided...

I've always tried to have a rule that you shouldn't make fun of innocent people who can't defend themselves. I find that a little unseemly and distasteful. But nothing's really sacred to me.

All theological lore is growing distasteful to me. All my recent excursions into such fields proves it to be a shifting, hypothetical, doubt-fostering, dusty, and unprofitable study.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Above all else, everyone at Roblox is committed to member safety. We take every precaution possible to make sure kids are protected from inappropriate and offensive individuals as well as from indecent and distasteful content.

It's interesting to me that apparently distasteful comments from the Right against weak targets tend to draw a lot less media fire than apparently distasteful comments from the Left against hard targets. That's one of the threads that runs through the show and that people hopefully pick up on.

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.

I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to stop being so excited, which I find so distasteful.