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It has always seemed strange to me... 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, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck

Love, Success, Men

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson Mandela

Black, Whether, White

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

Bad, Simply, Meet

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron

Love, Men, Haste

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
Lord Byron

Mutual, Perfectly

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope

Love, Sense, Keep

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Virginia Woolf

Money, Nothing, Writing

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.
J. K. Rowling

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Stephen Leacock

Die, Shall, Argue

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Jonathan Swift

Love, Hate, Animal

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
Nicolas Chamfort

Love, Friends, Attention

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.
Benjamin Carson

Politics, Political, Honest

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
E. W. Howe

Lies, Public, Except

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

Hate, Woman, Fashion

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

Fight, Human, Country

For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest.
Peter Singer

Money, Yourself, Strong

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

Nature, Fear, Reality

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Politics, Loathe

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
George Byron

Love, Men, Hatred

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

Hate, America, Reason

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

Angry, Why, Put

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.
Helen Clark

Strong, Social, Lies

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

Hate, Long, Last

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

Long, Story, Found

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

Put, Stuff, Painting

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.
Christine Lahti

Often, Taking, Land

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
Ken Livingstone

Politics, Loathe

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

Marriage, Between, Hear

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

Women, Movies, Woman

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.
Renee Vivien

Perfume, Heavy, Voices

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