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Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society. -- Maurice Druon
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so. -- Romain Rolland
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. -- Richard Steele
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person. -- Curt Flood
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end. -- Karel Capek
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable. -- Xun Zi
If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action. -- Jakaya Kikwete
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. -- Charles Bukowski
I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's there, and it's active. -- Tony Kushner
I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise. -- Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers. -- Tacitus
Delectable or detestable, all depends on what you place on the table -- Constance Chuks Friday
The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever. -- Charles Darwin
He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. -- Joseph Conrad
His [Donald Trump] words were foul and detestable and we all should acknowledge that. -- Kit Malthouse
Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all. -- C. S. Lewis
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable -- Oscar Wilde
One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others. -- Honore de Balzac
Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity. -- Charles Darwin
Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. -- Ambrose Bierce
Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines. -- Jean Baptiste Massillon
It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are! -- Virginia Woolf
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. -- Oscar Wilde
Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness -- Bertrand Meyer
Verily, the weight of half of disbelief in the world is carried by religious people who made God detestable to His servants. -- Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me. -- H. Rider Haggard
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable. -- Xun Zi
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is. -- Samuel Butler
Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude. -- George Washington
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious. -- William E. Gladstone
People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others... -- Randall Jarrell
The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life." -- Oscar Wilde
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life. -- Oscar Wilde
How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother? -- Gabrielle Hamilton
How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time? -- James Clavell
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty. -- William Ralph Inge
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. -- Thomas Paine
We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable. -- Thomas Paine
He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know. -- Joseph Conrad
The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education. -- Frederic Bastiat
Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense. -- Barack Obama

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