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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain. -- William Cowper
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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. -- Erica Jong
Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust. -- Zac Goldsmith
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health. -- Jean Piaget
Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness? -- Sean Hannity
While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known. -- Harold Pinter
Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces. -- Samuel E. Morison
I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy. -- Maurice Sendak
Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters. -- Kurt Eichenwald
In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory. -- Saint Ignatius
Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no. -- Michael Azerrad
Superiority is always detested. -- Baltasar Gracian
Glory grows guilty of detested crimes. -- William Shakespeare
Their families cordially detested one another. -- Terry Pratchett
War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife. -- William Shakespeare
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons. -- Sinclair Lewis
The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me. -- Bulat Okudzhava
God dwells only in the depths of your heart; he detested the superficial superficiality. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator... -- Mikhail Bulgakov
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France. -- Duke of Wellington
A man's got to keep up appearances. I'll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are. -- Julia Quinn
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. -- Cornelius Nepos
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future. -- Jean Rostand
I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human. -- Agnes Smedley
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine. -- Angelus Silesius
I detested you, at the moment of my death... My soul cannot move beyond that... As long as you live, I cannot rest! -Kikyo to Kagome -- Rumiko Takahashi
Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. -- Ambrose Bierce
In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being. -- Hans Arp
He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks. -- William Shakespeare
Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday were detested and the obscene become the classics of today. -- Mathew Tobriner
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. -- Oscar Wilde
For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. -- Hermann Hesse

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