Distasteful Quotes

#1. I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.

Rachel Sklar

#2. Pro-life advocates don't oppose abortion because they find it distasteful; they oppose it because it violates rational moral principles. The negative emotional response follows from the moral wrongness of the act.

Scott Klusendorf

#3. Do you really enjoy living a life that's so hateful? 'Cause there's a hole where your soul should be, you're losing control of it, and it's really distasteful.

Lily Allen

#4. It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

Jules Verne

#5. Being that I am of a high intellect, I find cursing distasteful and ill mannered. If that were not the case, however, I would compose a creative, innovative ballad of cursing and recite it at this moment," Elle announced,

K.M. Shea

#6. I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.

Kanye West

#7. Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

John Dos Passos

#8. I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to stop being so excited, which I find so distasteful.

John Currin

#9. Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Francis Quarles

#10. Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.

Robert Bork

#11. Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

William Hazlitt

#12. The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.

Nelson A. Miles

#13. We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought.

Learned Hand

#14. Here come the characters who comprise the movie vermin, the Hollywood scum, the film slime - the aforementioned "unscrupulous cowards of mediocrity." Fortunately, they are minor characters, yet so distasteful that their introduction has been delayed as long as possible.

John Irving

#15. The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more we spend on safety, the less we will have for our other goals.

Peter Singer

#16. Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of is patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

Michael Crichton

#17. I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

Leo Tolstoy

#18. All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

Wilfred Owen

#19. But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

#20. Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting the market to regulate may not ultimately be in our interest.

Noreena Hertz

#21. Primary revelation came through Jesus Christ, and I find it distasteful that additional divine finger prints should appear in nature.

George Murphy

#22. Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.

Jeremy Collier

#23. Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

Charles Spurgeon

#24. He threw her a distasteful look. "Uh ... meaning," he imitated her, "That Caia like totally isn't like a self-absorbed bimbo. She only like totally mashed people into pulp when someone else is in like total danger."
"I don't say like and totally that much, O-K!!

Samantha Young

#25. You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

Anthony Zinni

#26. There should be no distasteful tasks in one's life. If you just hate to do a thing, that hatred for it develops body-destructive toxins, and you become fatigued very soon.

Walter Russell

#27. We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it.

Yishan Wong

#28. Has no one ever taught you it is rude to pry?'
'Would you rather I sneaked about, ferreting things out? Of course not. 'Twould be most distasteful. All in all, I'd rather be thought rude than artful.

Eloisa James

#29. There's a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It's somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if you have to work at it, you're somehow a loser.

Kate Reardon

#30. Word For The Day BOONDOGGLE (BOON dahg'uhl) n. A pointless project. Work of no value, done merely to appear busy. Alternate Word ICKY (IK ee) adj. Very distasteful; disgusting.

Deb Baker

#31. For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

Tom Hollander

#32. A person finds it distasteful to hear his life recounted with a different interpretation from his own.

Milan Kundera

#33. Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

Rollo May

#34. There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when you do that.

Reza Aslan

#35. Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

Lois Lowry

#36. To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

John Henry Newman

#37. The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as a leader of the Nova Mob, Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin, said on one occasion.

William S. Burroughs

#38. I've always tried to have a rule that you shouldn't make fun of innocent people who can't defend themselves. I find that a little unseemly and distasteful. But nothing's really sacred to me.

Bob Odenkirk

#39. The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

Dan Farmer

#40. Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#41. I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

Jeff Tweedy

#42. Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.

B.W. Powe

#43. And while the Council generally tolerates murder, it finds murder for hire distasteful.

Molly Harper

#44. She unconsciously pulled her sticky shirt away from her skin and grimaced, as if sweating through her clothes was distasteful.

J.R. Rain

#45. Things, the word she used when whatever it stood for was too distasteful or filthy or horrible to pass her lips. A successful life for her was one that avoided things, excluded things. Such things do not happen to nice women.

Margaret Atwood

#46. It is never too late to break off a marriage that's distasteful to you.

Thomas Hardy

#47. I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#48. I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

Charles Dickens

#49. I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful - nonfiction only, please.

Gabrielle Zevin

#50. And so I'll wish you safe wonderings, an utter absence of distasteful suitors, and many more days of sunshine for your hatless head.

Kiersten White

#51. To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.

Danny Brown

#52. Because we find something distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem it criminal.

Moby

#53. Being nice doesn't make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

C.S. Lewis

#54. Wearily distasteful resignation: it seemed easier to attend the wedding than to bother explaining her absence afterwards.

Ayn Rand

#55. I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.

Jacob Epstein

#56. Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.

Charles Lamb

#57. It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

Francis Drake

#58. Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession . It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himself ... in exchange for money. Because of the passivity it entails, this is a difficult and, for many, a distasteful role.

Thomas Szasz

#59. Or she may accept, as appearances would sometimes lead us to believe, not the male which is the most attractive to her, but the one which is the least distasteful.

Charles Darwin

#60. As a young man, my father taught me a valuable lesson: never be afraid to accept a handout. Not a hand-up, mind you, as hand-ups invariably entail doing some sort of "work" at some later point. That shit's flat-out distasteful.

Nathan Rabin

#61. Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself.

Hermann Hesse

#62. As a collegiate, I think you spend 50 percent of your time recruiting. It is a distasteful process.

Marv Levy

#63. I understand the need for deception. I should; I live a life of it. Distasteful, perhaps. But necessary.

Virginia Boecker

#64. As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

Rex Stout

#65. Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

Charles M. Schwab

#66. I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

Tim Gunn

#67. As distasteful as it may seem when you're busy plotting to take over the world, it's equally important to stay on top of your bills.

Sophia Amoruso

#68. I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Hermann Hesse

#69. You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking, you know? You can't put too many peppers into the eggs ... otherwise it's going to be distasteful.

Eric Burdon

#70. I think it's very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don't talk about. That's why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.

Mick Jagger

#71. Reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace.

Hillary Clinton

#72. Distraught with the comprehension of his demise, a shovel stood dormant, in the ditch of her own digging. Now sheltered from the glare of greed and ambition, were the distasteful thoughts sprinkled in fool's gold.

Don Swann II

#73. It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

Joyce Maynard

#74. The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many persons. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians.

Charles Darwin

#75. Things are often exactly what they seem---horrifying or distasteful, even repugnant and disgusting.

Norman Giddan

#76. One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't go along with their views and then they make certain that this image is distasteful, and then anything that that person has to say from thereon, from thereon in, is rejected.

Malcolm X

#77. a good recipe in the hands of a bad chef is still distasteful! A good chef must have a discriminating palate, and a good band director must have a discerning ear

Mary Ellen Cavitt

#78. To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.

Chris Prentiss

#79. 'Cougar' has become so distasteful. I really hate that expression.

Demi Moore

#80. In cases of distasteful occupation, the second day is generally worse than the first; we return to the rack with all the soreness of the preceding torture in our limbs.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#81. Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did and does smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I save and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I'll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again.

Robert Browning

#82. As distasteful as it is to decline your invitation, I'm afraid that it is preferable to attending yet another half-assed weekend eating gunky canapes in that cesspool of a shack you call a beach cottage.

A.C. Kemp

#83. Gabriel knew that he had let himself in for a certain amount of ridicule when he decided to allow himself to be worshiped. In the end he decided that the precedent of actually forbidding a religion was more distasteful than being plagued by the devout.

Walter Jon Williams

#84. This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

Frederick William Robertson

#85. The right of free speech cannot be parceled out based on whether we want to hear what the speaker has to say or whether we agree with those views. It means, quite often, tolerating the expression of views that we find distasteful, perhaps even repugnant.

Andrew Rosenthal

#86. The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

Walter Lippmann

#87. There is not a racist bone in my dad's body. He doesn't even laugh at distasteful jokes.

Alan Wilson

#88. I forgot at the time that this inability to penetrate a room is a particular form of hesitation to be associated with persons in whom an extreme egoism is dominant: the acceptance of someone else's place or dwelling possibly implying some distasteful abnegation of the newcomer's rights or position.

Anthony Powell

#89. Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to get it.

Albert J. Nock

#90. I can tell she still finds me both loathsome and distasteful, but Rome wasn't built on mutual admiration.

Rainbow Rowell

#91. A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.

Margaret Benson

#92. Servitude of any sort is distasteful to all men, but especially objectionable is subjection to others in the case of those who ought to rule.

Ulrich Von Hutten

#93. No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#94. I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint - no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided ...

Richard M. Nixon

#95. Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I've envied, although few in number, have only been those that live a life of leisure with peace of mind and time to do such wonderful things as read.

Donna Lynn Hope

#96. Mom! I'm going with the boys to ... do ... something!"
"WHAT SORT OF SOMETHING?" This was Maura, from inside the house.
"SOMETHING DISTASTEFUL!" Blue roared back.

Maggie Stiefvater

#97. Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at the contest level requires a degree of vanity, narcissism, and self-absorption that I find distasteful and odd

Mark Rippetoe