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The passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
wolfgang amadeus mozart— Letter by Mozart, as quoted in a journal entry (12 December 1856) The Journal of Eugene Delacroix as translated by Walter Pach (1937), p. 521
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one’s own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people’s, preserve dignity.
stanhope, philip, 4th earl of chesterfield— August 10, 1749.
Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for the better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities, and a disgust for cheapjacks. We ought to smell, as it were, the difference of quality in men and their proposals when we enter the world of affairs about us.
william james— The Social Value of the College-Bred
Les amours meurent par le de go u" t, et l'oubli les enterre. Loves die from disgust, and forgetting buries them.
— 1688 Les Caracte' res ou les m½urs de ce sie' cle,'Du c½ur', no.32.
The historical repugnancetowomanhas a rational basis: disgust is reason's proper response to the grossness of procreative nature.
Heinz R(udolf) Pagels— 1990 Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, ch.1,'Sex andViolence, or Nature and Art'.
Dada began not as an art form but as a disgust.
— Quoted in SaranneAlexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).
There are, while human miseries abound,A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,Without one fool or flatterer at your board,Without one hour of sickness or disgust.
john armstrong— Book II, line 195.
I saw Hamlet Pr: of Denmark played: but now the old playe began to disgust this refined age.
john evelyn— November 26, 1661.
We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect.
fernando pessoa— Original: Adoramos a perfeição, porque não a podemos ter; repugná-la-íamos, se a tivéssemos. O perfeito é o desumano, porque o humano é imperfeito.
— Ibid., p. 249
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
petrarch— As quoted in The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes (2005) by Wendy Toliver. p. 446
He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.
valerie solanas— p. [1] (hyphens so in original (en-dashes probably not available on most typewriters in 1967))
Grotesque sentiments such as the lust of business success or economic power of any kind, and indeed every purely self-regarding passion, from that of the social climber to that of the salvation-seeking ascetic, are experienced by the explorer with something of that shame which the child, emerging into adolescence, may feel toward the still-clinging fascination of his outgrown toys, or with such disgust as the youth may feel when he wakes from some unworthy sexual infatuation
Olaf Stapledon— Chapter II: Exploring the Past
It's a movie barely fit for a cretin, much less a King. ... If you hear a door slam in the theater, you'll know that Elvis has left the building -- in disgust.
stephanie zacharek— Review of 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)
It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, Warren Hastings.
If good music has charms to soothe the savage breast, bad music has no less powerful spells for filling the mildest breast with rage, the happiest with horror and disgust. Oh, those mammy songs, those love longings, those loud hilarities! How was it possible that human emotions intrinsically decent could be so ignobly parodied.
aldous huxley— “Silence is Golden,” p. 59
How else is the famous short story ‘A study in Abjection’ to be understood but as an outbreak of disgust against an age indecently undermined by psychology.
thomas mann— On a short story of the character, "Gustav Aschenbach". Ch. 2, as translated by David Luke
The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.
herbert marcuse— p. 76 (One-Dimensional Man (1964))
This was the most difficult, the most extraordinary transition. Her body had been a source of shame and disgust; to engage in activities with no purpose at all except to revel in their sheer physicality had first nauseated, then terrified, and finally liberated her.
china miéville— p. 188 (Perdido Street Station (2000))
It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— "A Vindication of Natural Diet" (1813)
That certain women were ready to sell themselves caused no excessive disgust in Isabelle. It was inevitable that a number of both men and women should compromise the institution of marriage by marrying for money, and once that happened there could be no question of impressing on the toughly logical female mind the unique vileness of prostitution. She had sometimes wondered, too, whether the contempt men felt for women who market their favors did not in part proceed from from the sense of grievance eternally felt by buyers against vendors.
rebecca west— Chapter VI (The Thinking Reed (1936))
It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, Warren Hastings.
It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813).
The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.
— Chapter XIX, paragraph 2, lines 1-6 (An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised))
When your intellect transcends the mire of delusion, then you will attain to disgust of what has been heard and what is yet to be heard. When, perplexed by what you have heard, you stand immovable in samadhi , with steady intellect, then you will attain yoga .
— Krishna; Chapter 2, verses 52–53; Jeaneane D. Fowler translation
We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect.
— Original: Adoramos a perfeição, porque não a podemos ter; repugná-la-íamos, se a tivéssemos. O perfeito é o desumano, porque o humano é imperfeito.
— Ibid., p. 249
Alice... you always said that I disgust you, but I... I love you.
— Who: Decus
— Note: Said to Alice, after having been sliced across the back by Emil while trying to protect her from him.
When it is said to them: "Come to what God hath revealed, and to the Messenger.: Thou seest the Hypocrites avert their faces from thee in disgust.
— Original: ?
— The Qur'an (?), Sura 4:61
Hendrix had conjured – with his vision and sense of sound, his personality and genius – the most extraordinary guitar music ever played, the most remarkable sound-scape ever created; of that there is little argument. Opinion varies only over the effect his music has on people: elation, fear, sexual stimulation, sublimation, disgust – all or none of these – but always drop-jawed amazement.
— Ed Vulliamy, in "Jimi Hendrix: 'You never told me he was that good'" in The Guardian (8 August 2010)
"People of the future will say, “meat-eaters!” in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism."
— Dennis Weaver, quoted by Gail Davis in Vegetarian Food for Thought
