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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
willa cather— Shadows on the Rock, Epilogue
I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness).
paul theroux— "Being a Man" (1983), from Sunrise with Seamonsters: Travels and Discoveries, 1964-84 (Houghton Mifflin, 1986, ISBN 0-395-41501-2, 384 pages), p. 309
I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.
tony harrison— 1989 In the Observer, 23 Jul.
Aunt Sadie?so much disliked hearing about health that people often took her for a Christian Scientist, which, indeed, she might have become had she not disliked hearing about religion even more.
Nancy Freeman Mitford— 1945 The Pursuit of Love, ch.4.
If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.
Jan Morris— 2003 A Writer's World: Travels1950-2000, prologue.
Every occupation, unless it employs the whole mind and satisfies the human creative instinct, is to some extent absurd; and abouttheadvertising business what I chiefly disliked was not so much the work I did as its general atmosphere of unreality.We dealt in fairy-goldin fugitive dreams and illusions.
— 1977 The Marble Foot: an Autobiography,1905-1938, p.227.
The official world, the corridors of power, the dilemmas of conscience and egotismshe disliked them all.
— 1956 Homecomings, ch.22.This phrase was later used as the title of his1964 novel, Corridors of Power.
Mr Bernard Shaw has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by all his friends.
— Quoted inW B Yeats Autobiographies (1955).
I'm what you might call centre-right but I've always disliked the right wing as much as I've disliked the left wing.
— Comment about his own political ideology. From a Question and Answer interview on BBC New Online. (February 1, 1999) Url accessed on December 12, 2008.
I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they really disliked them but because it was the thing.
christopher isherwood— Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 4th series, ISBN 0-14-00-453-0, p. 226, interview with W.I. Scobie (1973)
There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."
jerome k. jerome— "On Babies"
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked ... it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
— Ch. 2 (The Moon and Sixpence (1919))
SS Colonel Wilhelm Mohnke was reportedly involved in more than one atrocity. A quick-tempered and harsh man — even toward other SS — he was generally disliked, even by his comrades. On June 11, he interrogated three Canadian prisoners and, after shouting at them and gesturing in anger, had them taken to the edge of a deep bomb crater and shot.
wilhelm mohnke— Samuel W. Mitcham
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
sydney smith— p. 257. Let us swear an eternal friendship. Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. The Rovers.
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
john buchan— Pilgrim's Way (1940), p. 58
They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always. It was appalling how stupid they were, really, and he could not help lashing into them.
kim stanley robinson— thoughts of Frank Chalmers
There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped.
rebecca west— Speech to the Fabian Society (1928)
The one who attended a matter and disliked it, is as the one who was absent; and whoever was not present in an affair yet was pleased with it, is as the one who witnessed it.
— Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p.479
Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.
Sir Kingsley Amis— 1960 Take A Girl LikeYou, ch.5.
