Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giacomo Leopardi

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

Giacomo Casanova

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I always have a curious sort of feeling about some of my things - I hate to show them - I am perfectly inconsistent about it - I am afraid people won't understand - and I hope they won't - and am afraid they will.

Ellen DeGeneres

Who's to say what's better or worse anyway? Who's to even say what's normal or average? We're all different people and we're allowed to be different from on another. If someone ever says you're weird, say thank you. And then curtsy. No, don't curtsy. That might be too weird. Bow. And tip your imaginary hate. That'll show them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The more we love, the nearer we are to hate.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hatred is stronger than friendship.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

Francisco Costa

I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.

Francis Quarles

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

Francis Quarles

Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.

Francis Quarles

He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.

Francis Quarles

No man's condition is so base as his; None more accurs'd than he; for man esteems Him hateful, 'cause he seems not what he is; God hates him, 'cause he is not what he seems; What grief is absent, or what mischief can Be added to the hate of God and man?

Ian Hart

I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.

Ian Brown

We've got no hate for each other [in the band Stone Roses], and we never have.

Hugh Laurie

I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!

Hugh Jackman

I work extremely hard doing what I love, mainly to ensure that I don't have to work extremely hard doing what I hate.

Hugh Jackman

I hate being frightened of things. I'm not someone who can say: "Oh, I'm scared of flying, I won't fly." Fear seems to creep over every part of your life so if there's something I identify as frightening to me I want to tackle it.

Homer

Kids are great. You can teach them to hate what you hate and, with the Internet and all, they practically raise themselves.

Homer

Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall

Homer

I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.

Homer

All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

I'd hate to see a wall put up there. I really wish there was another option.

Richard Hatch

I'd rather be in Pittsburgh doing a job I hate than be here in L.A. I got homesick.

Kurt Cobain

I'd rather be hated for hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Kurt Cobain

i'd rather people hate me for who i am then have them like me for who im not

I feel at home with these people now, but when I raced and was on the starting line, I hated their guts,

Robbie Williams

I don't want to hate but that's all you've left me with.