17 Quotations with Detestable.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
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- 3. Herman Melville: Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and ...
- 4. H. Rider Haggard: As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be ...
- 5. Oscar Wilde: Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. ...
- 6. Primo Levi: In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and ...
- 7. Alexis de Tocqueville: It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smas ...
- 8. St. Francis De Sales: Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and pro ...
- 9. Sir Richard Steele: Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful an ...
- 10. Decimus Magnus Ausonius: Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.
- 11. Henry Ward Beecher: Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no ...
- 12. Henry Ward Beecher: Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no ...
- 13. Charles Bukowski: Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times o ...
- 14. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of ge ...
- 15. Confucius: When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you loc ...
- 16. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable; absolute virtue is as sure ...
- 17. Virginia Woolf: Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to b ...
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