Quotation Explorer - 'Dislike'

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. - Boris Pasternak
There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope. - Oscar Wilde
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. - Aldous Huxley
Does everyone collectively dislike beetroots? I feel like they do. - Harry Styles
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. - Alexander Hamilton
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. - Will Rogers
As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked? - Rowan Atkinson
There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you’re determined to dislike for no good reason. - Gregory David Roberts
When attachment increases too much, dislike will arise. - Dada Bhagwan
A man's worth can be judged through those who dislike him. - Bill Loguidice
Whenever I use to think of others, I had to sacrifice myself...., Its called life in earth where you had to think a lot to do or not to do, the things you like or dislike..... - Nutan Bajracharya
I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents. - Salman Rushdie
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. - Alfred North Whitehead
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope. - Oscar Wilde
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. - Thomas Sprat
I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot. - Christopher Hitchens
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. - Letitia Landon
Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike. - Thomas Hardy
When I walk in, they may like me or dislike me, but everybody knows I'm here - Maya Angelou
A piece of art is part of its creator, you cannot split them apart. You cannot like one and dislike another. - Sameh Elsayed
Your superpowers don't care who you dislike. If you are an encourager, you encourage them anyway - Janna Cachola
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. - Robert Byrne
I'm a controversial figure: my friends either dislike me or hate me. - Oscar Levant
People tend to focus on the things that they don't like about themselves. While that's important for change, it's equally important to focus on what they love about themselves. For every one thing you dislike about yourself, think of five things you like about yourself. It's a balancing act. - Tom Giaquinto
Don't everallowthe disharmony of otherstobecome your ownamindful practiceof discernment(and the dislike for wearing bullshit)buildsthe eye, heart and spiritual muscles. - Thaiia Senquetta
Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing. - Trent Zelazny
I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic.
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. - J. R. R. Tolkien
I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. - Charlotte Bronte
LADY BRACKNELLThis noise is extremely unpleasant. It sounds as if he was having an argument. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. - Oscar Wilde
If you like or dislike something about them, Say it to their face. - Yasinthan
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. - Robert Byrne
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike. - Oscar Wilde
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. - Sallust
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. - J. K. Rowling
You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to. - William Faulkner
Getting the poison to them is more difficult than it should be. I cannot just slip it into their food, they eat with the rest of the household, and as much as I dislike everyone here, I am not willing to poison them all. At least not yet. - Robin LaFevers
As far as we are concerned, there is no dislike, no personal tension, no disunity or strife that cannot be overcome by intercessory prayer. Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike. - Joseph Addison
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. - Groucho Marx
Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality. - Clarence Day Jr.
It's easy to dislike the truth for it is ugly and harsh to the naked eye. - Antonio Kowatsch
Humans have a propensity to oppose things when it is not their idea and they had no input, or simply because it was initiated by those whom they dislike. - GE Paulus
I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women. - Sarah Moss
Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time. - Christopher Paolini
It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances. - Sheldon Vanauken
Some people around a person have a mysterious way of showing their dislike towards him, as they like regularly almost everything that he says or shares on his social media account. - Anuj Somany
The world is not worthless but one should know how to get work done from it, because everyone is God, they all have different work to do. Therefore do not have dislike for anything in this world. - Dada Bhagwan
There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others. - Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
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