Quotes about Dislike
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Tonight while walking on the waterfront in the angelic streets I suddenly wanted to tell you how wonderful I think you are. Please don't dislike me. What is the mystery of the world? Nobody knows they're angels.
— Jack Kerouac
Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.
— Brigham Young
Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours—watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he had a chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern's tower, and make a little heap of dust of it.
— Herman Melville
Now, contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love; and thus was it with respect to Wilson. No one could look at him without conceiving a strong dislike, or a cordial desire to entertain such a feeling the first favourable opportunity. There was such an intolerable air of conceit about this man that it was almost as much as one could do to refrain from running up and affronting him.
— Herman Melville
Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours - watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he have a chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern's tower, and make a little heap of dust of it.
— Herman Melville
It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.
— Wendell Berry
I didn't like general surgery and I wanted to get out. I disliked general surgery so much I was willing to sacrifice trying for a position in the neurosurgery
— Ben Carson
The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch.
— Herman Melville
Things out o' natur niver thrive: God A'mighty doesn't like 'em.
— George Eliot
I dont like animals. Its a strange thing, I dont like men and I dont like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
— Samuel Beckett
The passenger wondered when it was that he had first begun to detest laughter like a bad smell.
— Graham Greene