Revolted Quotes

#1. The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind ... From the very first he set before the consciousness things which it could not tolerate.

Georges Bataille

#2. Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

Jerome Lawrence

#3. One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.

Dick Gephardt

#4. Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and you're revolted by them.

Kevin Spacey

#5. Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.

Marc Ribot

#6. The heavy scent of perfume and the red slashes of lipstick, so strong in the fifties, revolted me. For a time I resented her. She was the messenger and also the message

Patti Smith

#7. Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left - sanity. But there was just enough in him of the blood of these fanatics to make even his protest for common sense a little too fierce to be sensible.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.

Mercedes Ruehl

#9. Just as our parents' souls revolted against God, their bodies revolted against their souls, to which they had been subject. And they realized 'that they were naked.

Alice Von Hildebrand

#10. I was physically revolted by and secretly frightened of those round moronic eyes, the pancake face, and orangeworms hair.

Toni Morrison

#11. She was sorry, and rather revolted at his dirty hands, but she laughed in a well-bred way, as though it were nothing unusual to her to watch a man walking in a slow dream.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#12. I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share

Quentin Crisp

#13. Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Milton Friedman

#14. People are surprisingly off put just by saliva, the substance that you carry around in your mouth. You swallow it. You have no objection to it. But then it leaves your body, and you're just revolted. So it - that - just that right there to me is a fascinating thing.

Mary Roach

#15. Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Leo Tolstoy

#16. Against his will, Magnus found a smile curving his lips as he rummaged around for his big blue coffee cup that said BETTER THAN GANDALF across the front in sparkly letters. He was besotted; he was officially revolted by himself.

Cassandra Clare

#17. What do we want to be prefects for?" said George, looking revolted at the very idea. "It'd take all the fun out of life.

J.K. Rowling

#18. Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful. In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And she knew that each day she remained alive, she remained alive. One plus one plus one. The Devil's arithmetic ...

Jane Yolen

#19. That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after.

Sarah Addison Allen

#20. My partner and I were going to renew our vowels, but the consonants revolted.

Stewart Lee Beck

#21. The object of love should feel honoured or flattered, responsible in some way. Instead he felt insulted, degraded and revolted. More than that, he felt put upon.

Stephen Fry

#22. My heart swelled, my belly dipped and my head revolted. It was my head that knew how to react but his had happened with Henry too. When the pain of not having what I so very much wanted escalated before I settled into the knowledge that what I had was better than not having anything at all.

Kristen Ashley

#23. I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada's.

Hans Arp

#24. He ate off dirty plates and was unfazed. His pillowcase was soiled and stank, but he never thought of changing it. Hamid thought long and hard, but he couldn't understand him. He often asked, 'Babuji, why aren't you revolted by dirtiness?

Saadat Hasan Manto

#25. As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

Catharine Beecher

#26. Some of what you see, my child, may make you affraid, revolted even, but you must remember that all life is born of corruption. The reborn can rise only from death and decay. Resurrection springs only from the tomb.

Karen Maitland

#27. Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.

William Shakespeare

#28. I'm not revolted by Washington.

Kevin Spacey

#29. Bubotubers," Professor Sprout told them briskly. "They need squeezing. You will collect the pus - "
"The what?" said Seamus Finnigan, sounding revolted.
"Pus, Finnigan, pus," said Professor Sprout.

J.K. Rowling

#30. I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

Ellen Glasgow

#31. One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another's ambitiousness.

Susan Sontag

#32. It is a difficult choice sometimes whether to feel revolted at the male sex or merely to dismiss them as contemptible.

Isaac Asimov

#33. I never revolted in vain, as a rebel or as a tyrant, but I rose seeking reformation for the nation of my grandfather Mohammad. I intend to enjoin good and forbid evil, to act according to the traditions of my grandfather, and my father Ali Ibn Abi-Talib.

Husayn Ibn Ali

#34. I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

Ben Kingsley

#35. She knows what's coming, and just that look of surrender in her eyes makes me horny as fuck. Not yet, Marcus. Not yet. Your turn will come soon. I don't know why this depravity turns me on so much. I should be revolted by my own desires, but I'm not. The

Clarissa Wild

#36. But then he didn't want to remember, because she had been nothing to him then, and his nature revolted from remembering her as she was when she was nothing to him.

D.H. Lawrence

#37. the nameless maiden in the advertisement was like a thousand other clothing models he had seen in magazines - arched brows, big eyes, angular cheeks, pouting mouth, a fetching figure, and a haughty, revolted look, as though someone had just offered her a jellyfish to hold.

Herman Wouk

#38. It looked like his ponytail had revolted against him, said Bramble.

Heather Dixon

#39. Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought
The better fight, who single hast maintain'd
Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.

John Milton

#40. I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

Francois Gautier

#41. Night after night, I endured these grand affairs alone, revolted by what objets d'art we were and contemptuous of how hollow society had turned out to be, and yet inexplicably, I was filled with a yearning to be one of them.

Sue Monk Kidd

#42. Here is a home for you; maybe you need us. All my desires to be useful, successful, and productive revolted.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#43. The soul that is yielded to Christ becomes His own fortress, which He holds in a revolted world, and He intends that no authority shall be known in it except His own. A soul thus kept in possession by the heavenly agencies is impregnable to the assaults of Satan.

Ellen G. White

#44. Now I see
we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.

David Henry Hwang

#45. How many times, over how many years, had he - a grown man - asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.

Stephen King

#46. Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place ... They revolted against much more mild oppression.

Ron Paul

#47. Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

John Milton