Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert

Some evils are cured by contempt.

Georg Groddeck

You will never go wrong in concluding that a man has once loved deeply whatever he hates, and loves it yet; that he once admired and still admires what he scorns, that he once greedily desired what now disgusts him.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.

Gene Hoffman

The problem with being a gun rights supporter is that the left hates guns and the right hates rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

Jessica Valenti

There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype 100 percent. Anything that deviates from that is very exciting for them.

Jessica Valenti

Men in their hearts hate women. It doesn’t matter how much we love them. They hate us”

Jessica Valenti

When are we going to realize that hating other women - no matter how much money they have or how far they've fallen - is just as bad for ourselves as it is for anyone else?

Jessica Simpson

I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it.

Jerry Bridges

In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such thinking is exceedingly dangerous. God’s judgement is without partiality. He never overlooks our sin. He never decides not to bother, since the sin is only a small one. No, God hates sin intensely whenever and wherever He finds it.

Jennifer Beals

We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into our stories...for now, but not forever.

We love without reason, and without reason we hate.

Jean Nouvel

I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.

Graham Swift

Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place.

Graham Norton

The higher your profile becomes, the more aware you are that people out there might hate you.

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

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

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.