Top 100 Quotes About Dislike
#1. The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.
Dustin Hoffman
#2. He feels an irrational dislike taking root, and he tries to dismiss it, because he prefers his dislikes rational, but after all, these circumstances are extreme ...
Hilary Mantel
#4. I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.
Lucas Grabeel
#5. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.
C.S. Lewis
#6. I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself free from everything but what I could carry about me. Like children, portmanteaus and trunks are hostages to fortune.
Herbert Spencer
#7. I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me
Oscar Levant
#8. He's the type of bloke you would want to have on your side. When you see an Indian side with Ganguly in the line-up, you know it's game on. You don't have to like or dislike him. You have to respect him.
Steve Waugh
#9. There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.
Gerald Jampolsky
#10. Twas hard to dislike a man she so enjoyed in bed. Twas harder still to dislike one who kept showing her a more gentle side to his nature
Johanna Lindsey
#11. I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist
Gena Showalter
#12. I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.
Hilary Mantel
#13. People dislike Ronaldo because he's a great player, good-looking and has sex with all the ladies. They get jealous. The only bad thing about Ronaldo's life is Messi. But for him, he would've been the best player in the world for five years in a row.
Luiz Felipe Scolari
#14. 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
#15. I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
Freya Stark
#16. If one stays too long with friends They will soon tire of him; Living in such closeness leads to dislike and hate. It is but human to expect and demand too much When one dwells too long in companionship.
Milarepa
#17. I never disliked humanity more than when I watched how indifferently they reacted to creation
Keith Buckley
#18. If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.
Sebastian Horsley
#20. I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.
David Lean
#21. It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people.
Bryant Gumbel
#22. Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get to the side of, to see whether deLint has a true z coordinate or is just a cutout or projection.
David Foster Wallace
#23. I have always dislike people who live by the motto "It's my way or the highway" We live in a free nation called America and not some freaking dictatorship!
Timothy Pina
#24. Love yourself as you love your neighbour. If you love your neighbour with a heavy heart, love yourself too with a heavy heart.
Israelmore Ayivor
#25. The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
Sydney J. Harris
#26. Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
T. S. Eliot
#27. Before you can brighten the corner where you are, you must first develop dislike for the initial dull corner you once endured. You can't change what you are comfortable with.
Israelmore Ayivor
#28. The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
Garth Hudson
#29. There's nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.' That's not why I became an actress. That's what I find so funny: that you become an actor, and all of a sudden, everyone wants to know about you. But I didn't become an actor so I could show you me.
Margot Robbie
#30. It isn't that I dislike you so much, big, fat dragon. It's that I don't like you enough.
G.A. Aiken
#31. The claim that some races were innately superior to others was later championed by Hitler, and so if Hitler was a nativist, then all nativists were Nazis. (That conclusion is illogical, but it makes sense emotionally if you dislike nativism.)13 The
Jonathan Haidt
#32. I want to say that of course I want my writing to be read and discussed by as many people as possible, but this is different than wanting personal, "celebrity"-like attention. I'm very introverted and sensitive and dislike being talked about, positively or negatively.
Marie Calloway
#33. I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters.
John Green
#34. A question I've thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.
Gabrielle Zevin
#35. I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#36. I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.
Jeffrey Bernard
#37. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]
Winston S. Churchill
#38. I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.
Bertrand Russell
#39. The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.
Jerome K. Jerome
#40. The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
Pancho Gonzales
#41. Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.
Jane Campion
#43. In general I do not draw well with literary men
not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
Lord Byron
#44. I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
H.P. Lovecraft
#45. There are two things that if you do them you will attain the good of this world and the hereafter; [They are] that you bear what you dislike if it is beloved to Allah and you leave what you like if it is disliked by Allah.
Ibn Hazm
#47. There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
Stephen Leacock
#48. I'm not cruisin' this opportunity in time and space for you to like or dislike my 'get-down'; I'm here 'cause I'm down to get it right by the time I return to the 'mothaship'. I remain a work in progress.
T.F. Hodge
#49. The worst aspect of our time is prejudice ... In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.
Rod Serling
#50. Love ... " she repeated slowly, in a musing voice, and suddenly, while disentangling the lace, she added: "The reason I dislike this word because it means such a great deal to me, far more than you can understand.
Leo Tolstoy
#51. I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.
Elsa Maxwell
#52. Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
John Masefield
#53. How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!
Joseph Hall
#54. A Nation ... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors
Karl Deutsch
#55. Fighting [in defence] is ordained for you, abhorrent as it may be to you. You may dislike something although it is good for you, or like something although it is bad for you: God knows but you do not.
Anonymous
#56. There's not much I dislike more than being addressed as "Hey you" and being poked with a finger.
Charlaine Harris
#57. Ruggles disliked Christopher Tietjens with the inveterate dislike of the man who revels in gossip for the man who never gossips.
Ford Madox Ford
#58. I have a profound dislike for showing off one's material wealth. This is insensitive and it is not what human hearts are made for. But what I like about China and sometimes miss in Europe is the entrepreneurial spirit of our young people, their ambition and dynamism.
Zhang Xin
#59. I know you don't like me," Kes said to her. "And, frankly, I don't like you. But please do me the service of shutting the fuck up. I'm doing the best I can.
Heather Demetrios
#60. Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
Samuel Richardson
#62. I should say no more. Because when we dislike someone we are always very ready to believe any ill of them
Jude Morgan
#63. There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.
Oscar Wilde
#64. It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you
Stephen Fry
#65. There are some we cannot help but take an instant dislike to.
Rick Yancey
#66. I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.
Sarah Hall
#67. Do you think it's funny that both of our favourite memories are about the people we like the least now?" I ask.
"Maybe that's why we dislike them," she says. "The distance between who they were and who they are is so wide, we have no hope of getting them back.
Nicola Yoon
#68. So you really cant think of anyone else who might want to kill you?"asked Jace.
"Unlike in your case there arent actually all that many people who dislike me."said Simon.
Cassandra Clare
#69. Creative people like to think in unconventional ways, dislike rules, are easily bored, are independent, like to experiment, and enjoy being their own bosses. Basically the same traits found in most criminals and sociopaths
Duncan Long
#70. Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
Samuel Johnson
#72. My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind - like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.
Renata Adler
#73. Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#74. Look at that fat kid, in the audience. You want some pie you little fatty? I strongly dislike fat kids. Security, please remove him, that fat kid, over there, by the pies.
Thom Yorke
#75. I dislike what has happened to the quality of the sound of music; there is little depth or feeling left, and people can't get what they need from listening to music anymore, so it is dying.
Neil Young
#76. Much as I usually dislike nice, positive people, I have to admit that Margaret isn't bad.
Susan Juby
#77. I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.
Elliott Erwitt
#78. Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.
Oliver DeMille
#79. The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
Moliere
#80. Let's say that it belong to me as much as it belongs to anyone alive today. If I am, strictly speaking, living. The old word was undead, you know, but aren't all living things undead. I dislike imprecision.
Rachel Caine
#81. Their indifference towards Jane when not immediately before them restored Elizabeth to the enjoyment of all her former dislike.
Jane Austen
#82. I have a lot of Breton striped top and silk shirts that always feel good. I also like things with a masculine edge and dislike anything too girly.
Jessica Raine
#83. If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.
John Green
#84. By the end of the first Potions lesson, he knew he'd been wrong. Snape didn't dislike Harry - he hated him.
J.K. Rowling
#85. Like and dislike, good or bad, God and devil, this and that,
Creates dualities and confuses mind to discriminate and make choices.
In Oneness, they all merge into surrender and acceptance.
Gian Kumar
#86. I took a strong dislike to him right then to save time and effort later.
Mike Carey
#87. Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.
Bertrand Russell
#88. I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality, coexistence, dislike, inbred differences and love despite knowledge I learned from my four younger siblings ...
Anna Quindlen
#89. We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.
David Ansen
#90. I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
Mencius
#91. As long as you are unaware of Being, the reality of other humans will elude you, because you have not found your own. Your mind will like or dislike their form, which is not just their body but includes their mind as well. True relationship becomes possible only when there is an awareness of Being.
Eckhart Tolle
#92. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart.
Bruce Lee
#93. the Regents' dislike of the social "leveling" they sensed in the Revolution was stronger.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#94. Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.
Mary Gaitskill
#96. I caught the rest of it in one of those snob columns in the society section of the paper. I don't read them often, only when I run out of things to dislike ... I threw the paper into the corner and turned on the TV set. After the society page dog vomit even the wrestlers looked good.
Raymond Chandler
#97. People don't dislike change, they dislike being changed.
Dean Ornish
#98. What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
Christopher Hitchens
#99. I don't have a favorite color, though I strongly dislike yellow. Horrid color.
I resolved to wear something yellow the next time I saw him. Yellow from head to toe, if I could manage it.
Michelle Hodkin
#100. I already explained this. I don't like you. True, I don't like most people, but I especially dislike you. I could start my own religion based on how much I dislike you.
G.A. Aiken
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