Quotes About Someone You Dislike

#1. It's easy - too easy - to either disbelieve or disregard someone you dislike.

Stephen King

#2. I believe all people are assholes. You won't find anyone that you like. You'll just find someone you dislike a little less than the last asshole. And I can't wait for that day. To have a woman that I can say I dislike a little less than all the other assholes.

Travis J. Dahnke

#3. Well, it's like this: if you're forced into having sex with someone you dislike, you make your mind blank - you pretend to be somewhere else, you tend to forget your body, you hate your body. That's what we do here. We are constantly pretending to be somewhere else - we either plan it or dream it.

Azar Nafisi

#4. It's a dangerous assumption and I know I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but it's always easier to pin suspicion on someone you dislike.

Sue Grafton

#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. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

Bertrand Russell

#13. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]

Winston S. Churchill

#14. I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.

Jeffrey Bernard

#15. I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. 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

#17. I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters.

John Green

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. You cannot love the Father and dislike His beloved son

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#23. There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

Stephen Leacock

#24. A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#25. Someone is going to hate what you do. That's not a maybe. That's a definite. And I don't mean dislike. I mean hate. With energy and vitriol and a passion that surprises you.

Jon Acuff

#26. It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

Benjamin Franklin

#27. I pray for him. It's very difficult to dislike someone for whom you are praying.

Jack Canfield

#28. When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand a different course. Those who refuse to do so are abdicating the most basic duty of citizenship and rendering themselves impotent.

Glenn Greenwald

#29. The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.

Julian Fellowes

#30. Grandma laughed. "You'd be surprised. It's awfully hard to dislike someone when you really pray for them. In fact the person you pray for could turn out to be one of your best friends.

Arleta Richardson

#31. And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

Aidan Chambers

#32. You don't have to hate when it's not a sin to dislike someone or to love them from a distance.

L.M. Fields

#33. While there will always be someone who may dislike you, there are others who will like you for who you are.

Shahla Khan

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.

Elizabeth Taylor

#38. I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

Lucas Grabeel

#39. 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

#40. I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me

Oscar Levant

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist

Gena Showalter

#45. I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

Hilary Mantel

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

Freya Stark

#49. It isn't that I dislike you so much, big, fat dragon. It's that I don't like you enough.

G.A. Aiken

#50. I never disliked humanity more than when I watched how indifferently they reacted to creation

Keith Buckley

#51. 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

#52. The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#53. I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

David Lean

#54. It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people.

Bryant Gumbel

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

T. S. Eliot

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. 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