Detest Quotes

We’ve collected the best Detest Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: J. K. Rowling, Ezra Cornell, Johnny Depp, Felix Dennis, Dennis Miller. Use them as an inspiration.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

J. K. Rowling

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

I detest jokes – when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn’t know it’s funny or doesn’t treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it’s a sort of rage against society.

Johnny Depp

I loathe and detest movies and television and don’t watch any. I do not have the time.

Felix Dennis

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

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

Nicolas Chamfort

As for my looks, if I didn’t look the way I do, I would probably be one of those many faces doing a romcom, which I detest. The way I look has somewhere defined the characters I played. My weakness has become my strength.

Emraan Hashmi

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

John Andre

I detest people who lie. I can’t stand it.

Farrah Abraham

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Lord Byron

Actually, I don’t even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don’t like places where the noise is so loud you can’t talk to people.

Salman Rushdie

I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I’d never leave my keyboard.

Kage Baker

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

Wandering around the mall and giggling at magazines doesn’t interest me. I’ve never enjoyed shopping. I detest shoes.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

I don’t detest Arsenal because of the way Wenger treated me.

Gervinho

I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world.

Sukarno

I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance – the less of you I can see, the closer you must be to God.

Mona Eltahawy

I love spicy food, so I’m not sure why I have this aversion to wasabi, but I really detest it.

Katie Lee

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

Peter Ackroyd

I only really like to watch things like ‘Time Team.’ I’d rather be out walking the dog. It’s all reality TV, which, as an actor, I detest.

Kevin Whately

I detest ‘Jingle Bells,’ ‘White Christmas,’ ‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,’ and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

Richard Dawkins

I think that’s an incredible thing that we can do as actors – to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

Jennifer Jason Leigh

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

Virginia Woolf

I adore my houses – they’re my refuge – but I detest more and more Saint-Tropez where it’s impossible to live: invaded by tourists, social evenings, all of which I avoid and which terrorises me.

Brigitte Bardot

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

I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.

Stephen Stills

There’s two or three managers I can’t stand. I detest them and they know that.

Neil Warnock

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

Helen Clark

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.

Italo Calvino

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 detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable.

Tom Scholz

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

Jordan Peterson

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Millard Fillmore

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

Jonathan Swift

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