Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Benjamin Franklin

The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"

Benjamin Franklin

Those who are fear'd, are hated.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below

Barbra Streisand

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

Barbra Streisand

I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane".

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

Avril Lavigne

I hate it when people say I'm not a true punk. I don't go around calling myself punk; I never have. That's what people need to know -- it's not me saying that, it's the media. I'm a rocker.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

Barry Watson

I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine.

Baltasar Gracian

All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.

Austin Carlile

I don't know why people have to categorize things in music under music. It's music and it's music and it's music. When you start putting genres on things, I think it's completely ridiculous, and I hate that.

Arundhati Roy

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those that the establishment has set out for you: If you're not a Bushie you're a Taliban. If you don't love us, you hate us. If you're not Good you're Evil. If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists.