Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.

Edith Wharton

How I hate everything!

Eddie Izzard

It's a historical thing, up to the 19th century the English hated the French. Then in the 20th century the English started to hate the Germans - as we began to move alphabetically through the map of the world. Now, the year 2000, we are fine with the Germans... but the Hungarians are pissing us off.

Ed Belfour

I hate to lose. Sometimes, I let my emotions get out of control.

Ed Begley, Jr.

When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.

David Henry Hwang

Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you

David Hockney

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

David Hume

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

David Duke

I don't consider myself a racist, I don't hate other peoples, but I certainly want to preserve my own. And I think that's true of all people.

David Duchovny

I really like gratuitous nudity. I hate when people go, 'I'll only do it if it makes sense for the movie'. It never makes sense. So I like it - the more gratuitous the better.

David Burnett

I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

David Brin

I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing.

David Brin

Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.

Beatrix Potter

I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.

Baroness Orczy

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.

Audre Lorde

Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.

Audre Lorde

Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.

Arthur Schnitzler

When you cannot love or hate anymore, then where is the charm of life?

Arthur Rimbaud

O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.

Edmund Wilson

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

Edmund Waller

Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate.

Edmund White

Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay novelist in the 1940s whom Gore Vidal once considered a rival.

Edmund White

Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure.

Edna Ferber

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I hate people but I love gatherings.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

Bobby Moynihan

I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.

Benjamin Franklin

The proud hate pride in others.

Benjamin Franklin

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

Benjamin Franklin

I don't believe in stereotypes. I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis.