abomination quotes

DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here.

-William Cobbett
  On Deal, Kent. Rural Rides (published1830), entry for 3 Sep.

Electric guitars areanabomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

- Andre  s Segovia
Quoted in Rick FriedmanThe Beatles:Words without Music (1968).