Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

William Butler Yeats

An intellectual hate is the worst.

William Butler Yeats

Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.

William Butler Yeats

Why should I seek for love or study it? It is of God and passes human wit; I study hatred with great diligence, For that's a passion in my own control, A sort of besom that can clear the soul Of everything that is not mind or sense.

William Butler Yeats

to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.

Walter Savage Landor

I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.

Walter Isaacson

On Startups: "I hate it when people call themselves "entrepreneurs" when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on.

Yohan Blake

One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.

Winston Churchill

It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.

Winston Churchill

And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler.

Winston Churchill

Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.

Winston Churchill

I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.

Winston Churchill

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

William S. Burroughs

Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit.

William S. Burroughs

I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink...

William S. Burroughs

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

William S. Burroughs

I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.

William Mapother

This is a horrid generalization, so I'll probably get hate mail from stockbrokers. I would have been forced to get back to work, and would have been less accustomed to being in touch with my feelings and allowing my feelings to drive my decisions and behavior.

William Lawson

... store of bees, in a dry and warme bee-house, comely made of fir boards, to sing, and sit, and feede upon your flowers and sprouts, make a pleasant noyse and sight. For cleanly and innocent bees, of all other things, love and become, and thrive in your orchard. If they thrive (as they must needs if your gardiner be skilfull, and love them: for they love their friends and hate none but their enemies) they will besides the pleasure, yeeld great profit, to pay him his wages; yea the increase of twenty stock of stools with other bees, will keep your orchard.

Virginia Woolf

But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.

Virginia Woolf

Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I thought, looking at Antony and Cleopatra; and when people compare Shakespeare and Jane Austen, they may mean that the minds of both had consumed all impediments; and for that reason we do not know Jane Austen and we do not know Shakespeare, and for that reason Jane Austen pervades every word that she wrote, and so does Shakespeare.

Woody Guthrie

I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.

Woody Allen

It figures you've got to hate yourself if you've got any integrity at all.

William Wycherley

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

William Shenstone

I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.

William Saroyan

The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?

William Saroyan

I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.

William Shatner

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.

William J. Clinton

I hate it when people blame someone else and don't take responsibility.

William J. Clinton

I hate that man Obama more than any man I’ve ever met, more than any man who ever lived,

William J. Clinton

No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again

William J. Clinton

Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.