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Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life. -- Farkas Bolyai
I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices. -- Renee Vivien
Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. -- J. K. Rowling
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. -- Lord Byron
I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual. -- Lord Byron
I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode. -- John Andre
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure. -- Lord Byron
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. -- Stephen Leacock
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. -- Helen Clark
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. -- Nelson Mandela
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. -- Millard Fillmore
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. -- H. L. Mencken
I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too. -- Richard Dawkins
We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being. -- Dennis Miller
I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page. -- E. L. Doctorow
I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists. -- Jenny Holzer
I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it. -- Laura Kightlinger
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony. -- Noam Chomsky
But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest. -- Harry Browne
Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people. -- Salman Rushdie
Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief. -- Orson Scott Card
One thing I detest, I have to say, is when a shoe is too soft, and it's molding to the foot. This is quite disgusting. And I really, really hate incredibly long shoes, where the last is very pointy, almost like Aladdin. -- Christian Louboutin
I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. -- Ezra Cornell
As for my looks, if I didn't look the way I do, I would probably be one of those many faces doing a romcom, which I detest. The way I look has somewhere defined the characters I played. My weakness has become my strength. -- Emraan Hashmi
Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law. Subversives who shape world events by covert action and violence work in shadows and detest the light of day. -- Stephen Kinzer
The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype. -- Bill Simmons
I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, I'm a size 8 - this week, anyway. Many stylists hate that size because I think to them, it shows that I lack the discipline to be an ascetic; or the confident, sassy abandon to be a total fatty hedonist. -- Mindy Kaling
Complainers detest each other. -- Mason Cooley
I detest war; it ruins conversation -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
I detest those who deceive me... -- Steve Berry
I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices. -- Sergei Prokofiev
Love the offender, yet detest the offense. -- Alexander Pope
I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery. -- Tallulah Bankhead
I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics. -- Ken Livingstone
Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked). -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries. -- H. L. Mencken
I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense." -- Gary Kemp
I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel. -- Thomas Paine
One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense. -- Gary Kemp
I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense. -- Gary Kemp
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. -- E. W. Howe
No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand. -- Baruch Spinoza
I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment. -- Amanda Palmer
I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest. -- Christine Lahti
I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard. -- Kage Baker
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame. -- Dawid Janowski
The greater our own level of narcissism, the more we detest it in others. -- Steve Maraboli
I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all -- Gustave Flaubert
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. -- Frederick Douglass
I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors. -- Cleveland Amory
We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence. -- Sunday Adelaja
Man who has lived through so many storms will either worship the tranquillity or will detest it! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical. -- Peter Ackroyd
I do detest the human race as a whole, but some groups are more deserving than others, -- James D. Sass
I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time. -- Felix Dennis
Wandering around the mall and giggling at magazines doesn't interest me. I've never enjoyed shopping. I detest shoes. -- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another. -- Homer
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? -- Alexander Pope
I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic! -- John Lahr
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. -- Jonathan Swift
In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think. -- Brendan Behan
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. -- Virginia Woolf
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me. -- Nicolas Chamfort
One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty. -- Barry Ritholtz
All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own. -- Michael Drayton
Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most. -- John Lydon
I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter. -- William S. Burroughs
The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down. -- H. L. Mencken
Gracious," said Cecily. "You must be Mr. Sallows." "Nephilim," observed the shop owner gloomily. "I detest Nephilim." "Hmph," said Cecily. "Charmed, I'm sure. -- Cassandra Clare
Monsieur l'abbÃ©, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write. -- Voltaire
I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them. -- Baruch Spinoza
He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it. -- Mark Twain
Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous. -- Perry Brass
I detest these underdone men, he thought coldly. Boiled looking! Ought to be shoved back in the oven; just one more minute would do it. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm not wholesome at all. I detest homey things like cooking and bed-making and Peter Pan collars. I like to wear slacks and play golf. -- Joan Caulfield
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. -- Shirley Temple
Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest. -- Samuel Johnson
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. -- Sergei Prokofiev
Love presses my head with carefully placed feet, wretch that he is, until he has taught me to detest chaste girls, and to live with no counsel. -- Propertius
We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone. -- Adam Savage
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. -- Millard Fillmore
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. -- H. L. Mencken
I only really like to watch things like 'Time Team.' I'd rather be out walking the dog. It's all reality TV, which, as an actor, I detest. -- Kevin Whately
Would you like to hear a nice definition of jealousy? It's the feeling that you get when someone you absolutely detest is having a wonderful time without you. -- William Peter Blatty
I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics. -- Frank Zappa
I do not condemn any personal choices for intimate relationships. Love is love. I detest only the violence and trauma that any self-centered conduct can cause to others. -- Akiane Kramarik
Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside. -- Paulo Coelho
I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length ... -- Mary Russell Mitford
We must do jobs we detest because we are part of an organized society, and if everyone did what they wanted to do, the world would come to a standstill. -- Paulo Coelho
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. -- Glenn Gould
I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore. -- Virginia Woolf
I think logicians hate my work, they detest it! And I'm like pornography, I'm sort of an unmentionable subject in the world of logic, because my results are so disgusting! -- Gregory Chaitin
That's a good attitude. You should hate me more, curse me more, and detest me! Then you should take the power of that hatred and use it to survive this rotten world. -- Hideaki Sorachi
I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church. -- Galileo Galilei
Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons. -- Melina Marchetta
I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it. -- Leonardo Sciascia
I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do not care which of them you think White. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
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 -- H. L. Mencken
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun; The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to; Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta. -- Noel Coward
My hate is general, I detest all men;Some because they are wicked and do evil,Others because they tolerate the wicked,Refusing them the active vigorous scornWhich vice should stimulate in virtuous minds. -- Moliere
I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable. -- Tom Scholz
Michael Moore simultaneously represents everything I detest in a human being and everything I feel obligated to defend in an American. Quite simply, it is that stupid moron's right to be that utterly, completely wrong. -- Dennis Miller

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