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

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

I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode.
John Andre

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.
Renee Vivien

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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






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