Top 141 Odious Quotes & Sayings

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings.

Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

I look at him. "It's odious," he says. "Detention?" I ask, confused. "Huh?" We have no idea what the other is talking about. "What's odious?" I ask. "O.D.S," he says, pointing to his discman and obviously referring to some dropkick band. Like I really care.

See Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.

What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . .

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

Dieting is odious and can require years of determination and sacrifice. I entirely understand the impulse to say, 'Screw it,' and have another piece of cake.

A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials from the divine person who sent them on such a message.

WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

None of us are nuclear experts, but we know that if there is a melt-down and breach of containment, that's clearly the most odious thing that could happen.

Why do guys insist on wearing those odious jeans with their rear ends hanging down around their ankles? Do they really think it's hot?

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

I think comparisons are odious.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange.

Peter Mandelson is one of the most odious, self-satisfied, misogynistic men I have ever met. Compellingly, fascinatingly horrible.

I like playing Vernon Dursley in 'Harry Potter,' because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public.

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.

Comparisons are odious.

And she hates being managed - that is not the word I want. What is it, Maturin?' 'Manipulated.' 'Exactly. She is a dutiful girl - a great sense of duty: I think it rather stupid, but there it is - but still she finds the way her mother has been arranging and pushing and managing and angling in all this perfectly odious. You two must have had hogsheads of that grocer's claret forced down your throats. Perfectly odious: and she is obstinate - strong, if you like - under that bread-and-butter way of hers. It will take a great deal to move her; much more than the excitement of a ball.

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.

Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one.

But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it.

We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.

One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.

An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.