Top 100 To Be Hated Quotes
#1. My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.
Julie Chen
#2. No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people.
Moby
#3. Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
John Keats
#5. I've always said it's better to be hated than it is to be ignored. Maybe on the same lines, it's better to feel this than to feel nothing.
Gayle Forman
#6. When people see you do alright, then you start winning their hearts. It's not going to come easy, though. It doesn't matter how many people you do right, you're still going to be hated by so many others. You can't live your life trying to make everybody happy.
Cam Newton
#7. Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "the courage to be hated."
Frank Langella
#9. Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
St. Jerome
#10. I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.
Howard Stern
#11. It's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people
Johnny Cash
#12. It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you think that other humans are somehow different enough to be hated and killed when in reality you're all tiresomely similar in outlook, needs and motivation, and differ only by peculiar habits, generally shaped by geographical circumstances.
Jasper Fforde
#13. To be hated cordially is only a left-handed compliment
Herman Melville
#15. A leader cannot avoid being hated. This hatred is directly proportional to his influence and power. A person who does not wish to be hated should avoid leadership roles.
Awdhesh Singh
#16. I think it's because we both understand what it's like. It's not easy to talk like this with other people because they don't know. They don't know what it's like to be hated by the people who are supposed to love you. - Emma
Rebecca Donovan
#17. I think part of him actually wants to be hated. He only ever shows you what he wants you to see. He's so closed off-it made me feel like he'd never tell.
Michelle Hodkin
#18. A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him.
Stephen King
#19. It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.
Bette Davis
#20. You shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: you must be proud of your foes. Thus have I already taught.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Alexander Pope
#22. People come out of prison and aren't treated like I've been treated. I didn't kill anybody. I didn't violate anybody's rights. My rights were violated. Nobody likes to be hated, but the whole world hated Mary Beth Whitehead.
Mary Beth Whitehead
#23. Don't you see that Americans need the anti-American? While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also better to be hated than ignored.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#24. It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.
John Simon
#25. It's ok to say you've got a weak spot,you don't always have to be on top.
Better to be hated then loved(x3) for what you're not.
Marina And The Diamonds
#26. It's better to be hated than ignored.
G-Dragon
#27. The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#28. The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. I have the right to be hated.(Takumi)
Ai Yazawa
#30. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide
#31. To be hated! to love with all the fury of one's soul; to feel that one would give for the least of her smiles, one's blood, one's vitals, one's fame, one's salvation, one's immortality and eternity,
Victor Hugo
#32. A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.
Zane Grey
#34. God sleepeth not, and He will visit His judgement upon you. Better were it for you to have a millstone hung about your neck and sink into the sea than to be hated and despised of all men.
Helen Keller
#35. It's not easy to talk like this with other people because they don't know. They don't know what it's like to be hated by the people who are supposed to love you.
Rebecca Donovan
#36. No one ever said you've got to prepare to be hated. You've got to prepare for the yelling and the anger. You have got to prepare how to survive being the guilty one, even in innocence.
Tiffany McDaniel
#37. There are a lot of reasons to be hated in pop culture, and being a straight white male is one of them. In fact, I almost hate me
John Rzeznik
#38. I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.
Josh Smith
#39. The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but feared; and there are thousands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits.
Samuel Johnson
#40. To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!
Homer
#42. All the time thinking he'd had no idea before this night how easy it was in this world to be hated.
John Katzenbach
#43. While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#44. To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
Minna Antrim
#46. Distressing to be hated because of lies, isn't it." (Mirella)
"Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated." (Schramm)
Mary Doria Russell
#47. I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.
Molly Crabapple
#48. As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win - or just not be so sad!
Kara Walker
#49. I hated to leave her and I hated to
be near her,
because she made me remember what I wanted most to forget.
Jenny Han
#50. Everybody's just been spilling their guts all over records and talking about how hard it is to be an entertainer and how much we get hated on and what we have to go through. But I ain't really got it that bad. I'm just happy to be here.
Sean Combs
#51. It was my job not just to pluck the chickens but to eviscerate them. I hated that part. Nauseating and disgusting, but it had to be done. That's what I learned from my father and what I loved learning from him: that you do what you have to do.
Philip Roth
#52. I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#53. Katherine, who tried so hard in London to be best friends with Virginia Woolf, who hated her, because Katherine was the kind of naif-imbecile that the literary men adored and championed at her expense.
Chris Kraus
#54. I don't trust myself with you." It had to be said, even if I hated admitting it to him and myself.
D.T. Dyllin
#55. Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.
Kristen Stewart
#56. Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him.
Lynn Johnston
#57. I guess I just don't like being physically in front of people I don't know very well, because I expect to be 'seen through,' or, even worse, instantly hated.
Chris Ware
#58. I wanted to shove her typewriter on the floor. I hated it and I hated her. I wanted to be a Cosby.
Augusten Burroughs
#59. You should have asked me! You should have asked me!" I hated the tears that suddenly flooded my eyes and how my throat closed and choked me. I didn't want to be sad. I wanted to be angry. Angry hurt less."
p. 501 Bee to Fitz
Robin Hobb
#60. For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!
William Shakespeare
#61. Vimes hated and despised the privileges of rank, but they had this to be said for them: at least they meant that you could hate and despise them in comfort.
Terry Pratchett
#62. Part of me wanted to be like the other guys at school. I wanted to be simple. People who do less thinking tend to be happier ... I wanted to be like the other guys because they were having more fun. But I couldn't be like them because I hated everything they stood for.
J. Matthew Nespoli
#63. People hated and killed each other back then. Now even those who survived are dying, leaving this world one by one. Unless we find a way to forgive one another, none of us will ever be able to see each other again. (2007: 88)
Hwang Sok-yong
#64. A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive.
John Steinbeck
#65. I remember during Oscar season, the thing I hated most was being talked to differently; people treat you differently. And then I suddenly understood why celebrities can be so weird; it's hard to act normal when no-one treats you normally.
Jennifer Lawrence
#66. If Fred's history will seem less unbiased then some would wish, let it never be overlooked that it is no small task to record a history of hate when one is among the hated.
Larry Kramer
#67. Two steps forward ... one step back ... I've always hated that old cliche too ... I believe that we should all be able to dance through life and only change the tempo now and then.
Isabelle Rowan
#68. Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.
John Ciardi
#69. She hated the predictability of herself, but knew life probably wouldn't be long enough for her to grow out of it.
Glen Duncan
#70. People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price.
Hjalmar Soderberg
#71. Though poor in this world's goods, though grieving the loss of loved ones, though suffering pain of body, though harassed by sin and Satan, though hated and persecuted by worldlings, whatever be the case and lot of the Christian, it is both his privilege and duty to rejoice in the Lord.
Arthur W. Pink
#72. When I first went to L.A., I really hated it. I had this preconceived idea of what it would be like. You think of Hollywood as this beautiful place, but everything looks rundown and old.
Sophie Lowe
#73. I was never considered cool throughout my teens: a very important time to be accepted by someone, especially your peers. Yes, I had all the screaming women, but the guys hated my guts.
Donny Osmond
#74. They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.
Stephen Sondheim
#75. I couldn't do the heavy rock thing anymore. Noddy Holder was around kicking every singer in the ***. I never wanted to be a pop singer. Christ, how I hated Noddy!
Tom Jones
#76. A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
Benjamin Franklin
#77. He didn't exactly have the "programmer" look to him, if you know what I mean. He'd be the programmer's boss. The one they hated. The one who made them work on holidays.
John Scalzi
#78. A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it.
Paul Horgan
#79. I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.
John Green
#80. I named my album Year of the Gentleman. Just looking at how the essence of what it is to be a gentleman is very much lacking nowadays. Someone said to me that chivalry is dead, and I hated to have to agree, but it's true.
Ne-Yo
#81. I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.
Richard Rodney Bennett
#82. Sometimes, people won't like what you do. Do it anyway. It's better to be happy and hated than miserable.
Kit Rocha
#83. I'd rather be hated for what I am than to be loved for what I'm not.
Chuck D
#84. Though her husband often went on business trips, she hated to be left alone.
"I've solved your problem," he said. "I've bought you a St. Bernard. Its name is Great Reluctance. Now, when I go away, you shall know that I am leaving you with Great Reluctance!"
She hit him with a waffle iron.
Charles M. Schulz
#85. She wasn't a cruel Bird. But her heart ached so badly for these sad, broken birds that, just as the Puppeteer had planned, she had begun to hate them. She hated them for making her feel so wretched, when she should be happiest. That happens sometimes.
Katherine Catmull
#86. Her mother was clearly worried. She had started speaking to Sophie in a different tone since this business with the white rabbit and the top hat. Sophie hated to be a worry to her mother, but she just had to go upstairs and keep an eye on the mail box.
Jostein Gaarder
#87. Usually, during the past fifteen-odd years, I'd hated to see the morning come. That's a psychotic symptom, you know, not wanting to awaken
hating to face things that are bound to be more than you can handle.
Jim Thompson
#88. If you want to be seen as courageous by some and hated by others, just say what you really think.
Tucker Max
#89. [I] the is the duty of black men to judge the Southern discriminate lyrics. The present generation of Southerners are not responsible for the past, and they should not be blindly hated or blamed for it.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#90. Love, love: it was never as pure as you needed it to be. That was the good thing about hate. If you hated someone, really hated him, then you could wish him dead and never once worry that you would change your mind about it.
Brock Clarke
#91. I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
Barbra Streisand
#92. So if the world hates us, we take courage that it hated Jesus first. If you're wondering whether you'll be safe, just look at what they did to Jesus and those who followed him. There are safer ways to live than by being a Christian.
Shane Claiborne
#93. I suppose it should bother me to be so hated but, without it, I wouldn't have the delight of torturing them with my presence. What can I say? My cheerful spirit can't help but spot silver linings.
Eliza Crewe
#94. Objects that don't exist don't exist. If we were to imagine such a thing as an object that didn't exist, it would be that thing that God hated. This is the strongest argument against the nonbeliever. If God didn't exist, he would have to hate himself, and that is obviously nonsense.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#95. I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.
Zach Condon
#96. But like many who are lonely, I was more preoccupied with others than were those who lived to socialize...Everyone I hated was always with me, even when I was alone. They had to be, for I had to remember what and why I hated in order to remind myself to stay away from them.
The Arbinger Institute
#97. Dear child, I only did to you
what the sparrow
did to you; I am old when it is
fashionable to be young; I cry when it is
fashionable to laugh.
I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.
Charles Bukowski
#98. I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.
Jeff Greenfield
#99. Sure, at heart I wanted to be a Dickens, but I hated being great on command.
Rachel Heffington
#100. It was also never wanting to be part of any group or movement or anything that was the done thing. I hated organization. When you have a group, you have a leader who is going to put down the rest of the group.
Rei Kawakubo
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