Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Erica Jong

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

Erica Jong

No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Erica Jong

it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.

Enrique Iglesias

I'm not a heartthrob. I hate that word.

Eoin Colfer

Now I can do the bolts," she slurred. "I've been trying to focus enough magic all week." The magic shifted and swirled, finally etching a picture in the air. It was a rough picture of Foaly, and he was laughing. I hate you, centaur!" screamed Opal, lunging toward, and then through, the insubstantial image. Her eyes rolled back into her head, and then she collapsed, snoring, on the floor. Artemis straightened his tie. Freud, he was certain, would have a field day with that.

Eoin Colfer

Don't hate me forever, Arty," whispered Holly. "I couldn't bear that.

Eoin Colfer

The next minute or so was spent howling on the ceiling . Imp No.1 joined in, but he wasn't really feeling it. It shouldn't be "Who do we hate?", he thought, it really should be "whom", but this probably wasn't a good time to bring that up.

Emma Bunton

I hate a macho sort who doesn't cry. They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they? One guy even said to me at a pub, "Do you come here often?" Thats an awful line.

Emily Saliers

The truth that people are missing about certain things, you know when they get fearful and they get hateful, and they repress other peoples, is the greatest truth of all, you know, the truth of love and understanding and clarity about all those issues. And it's like, one day, one day, everybody's gonna know, myself included, over certain things. But, so it's like, it's alright, you know, you hate me now, but that's cool, because I see a better day and I know that there's a higher truth, and you're wrong about hating me because I'm gay.

Emma Forrest

When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work to confirm your worst suspicions. Or think of things you could never have imagined! There are only so many hours of the day to hate yourself.

Emma Forrest

When I am in a relationship, I don’t wear lipstick at all. I hate the smearing, the retouching, the constant throb of phoniness as you surreptitiously check the damage in your compact between kisses. I wear lots of mascara to compensate, different colors so I don’t get bored. When I am about to break up with a guy, he has full warning because I start wearing lipstick again.

Eminem

See, regardless of what anybody believes who hates me; you ain't gonna make or break me.

Eminem

Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters

Eminem

Have you ever been hated, or discriminated against I have, I’ve been protested and demonstrated against.