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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
«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
«Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.»
Author: Edgar Watson Howe (Editor, Essayist, Novelist) | Keywords: detest, in public, printed
«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 my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all»
Author: Gustave Flaubert (Novelist) | About: Speech | Keywords: detest
«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
«I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so»
Author: Stephen Leacock | Keywords: agents, detest, insurance agent
«I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | Keywords: converts, detest, missionaries
«I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: detest
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