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«I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another»
Author: Homer | About: Communication, Men | Keywords: depths, detest, detested, detesting, detests, hides
«It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.»
Author: John Steinbeck (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: admire, concomitant, concomitants, detest, detested, detesting, detests, egotism, generosity, greed, meanness, openness, seemed, sharpness, traits
«Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within set bounds; the creations which yesterday were the detested and the obscene become the classics of today.»
Author: Matthew Tobriner | Keywords: bounds, classics, creations, detested, monuments, obscene, self-expression, The Classics
«How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: detest, detested, detesting, detests, offence, offender, offenders, The sense
«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»
Author: Galileo Galilei (Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher) | Keywords: abjure, abjured, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholic churches, detest, detested, heresies, sect, unfeigned
«I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man»
Author: Nelson Mandela (Statesman) | Keywords: barbaric, Black man, detest, detested, detesting, detests, racialism, white man
«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. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: adj, detested, prospect, sic
«But Life will suit Itself to Sorrow's most detested fruit, Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Life, Sorrow | Keywords: apples, Dead Sea, Dead Sea Fruit, detested, sea shore, The Apples
«I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: detested, detesting, detests, fact, faults, Having, help, none, Other People, relations, stand, suppose
«Detested sport, / That owes its pleasures to another's pain.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: detested
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