Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Chesterfield

There is nothing so necessary, but at the same time there is nothing more difficult (I know it by experience) for you young fellows, than to know how to behave yourselves prudently towards those whom you do not like. Your passions are warm, and your heads are light; you hate all those who oppose your views, either of ambition or love; and a rival, in either, is almost a synonymous term for any enemy.

Lord Chesterfield

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

Lord Chesterfield

Men are much more unrolling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue.

Malcolm Bradbury

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

Malala Yousafzai

I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.

Magic Johnson

If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you're business is successful.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

Gail Collins

There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came around, admitted they were wrong, and were forgiven. But the ones who actively choose hate-mongering don't ever get a pass.

Gabrielle Zevin

It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.

Gabrielle Zevin

A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.

Freya Stark

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

Napoleon Bonaparte

Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A true man hates no one.

Some hate broccoli, some hate bacon I hate having my picture taken. How can your family claim to love you And then demand a picture of you?

Norman Schwarzkopf

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

Norman Mailer

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

Norman Mailer

I hate everything which is not in myself.

Oscar Arias

I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering. I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep things as they are, to make us abandon our ideas of a different world. Law is the path of liberty, and must as such open the way to progress for everyone.

Oscar de la Renta

I hate pretty. It’s a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.

Orson Welles

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

Orson Welles

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

Orson Welles

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Orson Welles

I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

Orson Welles

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Orlando Jones

Love without limits; reverse the hate.

Orlando Jones

I'm challenging myself to reverse the hate.

Orhan Pamuk

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

Olga Kurylenko

I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.