Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iris Murdoch

I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. It's already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself.

Iris Murdoch

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.

Imelda Marcos

I would have to ask the public to choose between a culture of hate or a culture of love. I am sure our poor will pick the latter. With the Marcos assets, we could regain this value of sharing love with one another.

Imelda Marcos

I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

Ida Lupino

Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.

Idries Shah

If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.

Idries Shah

MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you

Geraldine McCaughrean

I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking.

Harry Melling

I am a really bad traveler, I hate traveling and I hate being late so I figure if I could just click my fingers and be somewhere then that would be great!

J. K. Rowling

You are determined to hate him [Snape], Harry,” said Lupin with a faint smile. “And I understand; with James as your father, with Sirius as your godfather, you have inherited an old prejudice. By all means tell Dumbledore what you have told Arthur and me, but do not expect him to share your view of the matter; do not even expect him to be surprised by what you tell him. It might have been on Dumbledore’s orders that Severus questioned Draco.

J. K. Rowling

The Death Eaters can't all be pure-blood, there aren't enough pure-blood wizards left," said Hermione stubbornly. "I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to be pure. It's only Muggle-borns they hate, they'd be quite happy to let you and Ron join up" "There is no way they'd let me be a Death Eater!" said Ron indignantly...."My whole family are blood traitors! That's as bad as Muggle-borns to Death Eaters!" "And they'd love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in.

J. K. Rowling

But Snape always seemed to hate me so much.

J. K. Rowling

I’ll make Goyle do lines, it’ll kill him, he hates writing,” said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle’s low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. “I... must... not... look... like... a... baboon’s... backside.

J. K. Rowling

I just hate meetings.

J. K. Rowling

Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —” “That’s enough, Phineas,” said Dumbledore.

H. G. Wells

Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents...

H. G. Wells

It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish....Countless people...will hate the new world order....and will die protesting against it.

H. G. Wells

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

H. L. Mencken

Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.

H. L. Mencken

The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greasy cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.

H. L. Mencken

Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.

Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented.

Guillaume Apollinaire

I hate artists who are not of their time.

Grace Metalious

How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

Grace Metalious

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

Grace Helbig

I hate auditioning; it makes me more nervous than anything ever, and I always feel like I wasted my time and I could have been creating my own thing. With the Internet, you have so much freedom that 'gatekeepers' make me terrified.

Grace Kelly

At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends...

Grace Jones

I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them.

J. R. Moehringer

While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

Ja Rule

Don't hang out in your old neighborhood with your new cars and flash it to guys who don't have that. The only thing you're doing is making 'em hate.

Ja Rule

Half the hoes hate, half them love me. The ones that hate me only hate me cuz they ain't [expletive] me.

Grant Achatz

I hate stuff in my pockets, can't stand it. I'll carry stuff in my hands rather than put it in my pockets.

George Herbert

We must love, as looking one day to hate.