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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
«Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.»
Author: Erica Jong | About: Men and Women, Truth | Keywords: compared, detested, detesting, detests, gossip, measurement, measurements, suspect
«The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it»
Author: George Washington (President) | Keywords: cursing, despises, detested, detesting, detests, foolish, low, profane, profaning, swearing, swears, vice, wicked
«It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!»
Author: Luigi Pirandello (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | Keywords: casual, detests, Old Enough, sordid, unspeakable
«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
«That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir (Writer) | Keywords: detests, middle class, The Middle Class
«Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus (Editor, Humanist, Priest) | Keywords: detests, prodigies, prodigy, shoulders
«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
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