Quotes about Dislike

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

When people ask me that absurd question Do you like children? I always feel like retorting - and sometimes do, if I think the questioner has brains enough to understand the retort - Why don't you ask me if I like grown-up people? I like some very much, detest others, and am indifferent to the vast majority.

Jane did not like Phyllis. Sometimes Jane thought drearily that there must be something the matter with her when there were so many people she didn't like.

It had been so ugly, and Walter hated ugliness.

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

The man you love to hate.

Brummel was a man somewhere in his thirties, single, a one-time hotshot city cop with a big buck lifestyle that belied his policeman's salary. He always came on like a likable guy, but Marshall never really trusted him. Come to think of it, he didn't like him that much either. Too much teeth showing for no reason.

Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull Suspense corrupt the stagnant Mind? Must helpless Man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the Torrent of his Fate? Must no Dislike alarm, no Wishes rise, Nor Cries invoke the Mercies of the Skies? Enquirer, cease, Petitions yet remain Which Heaven may hear, nor deem Religion vain. Still raise for Good the supplicating Voice, But leave to Heaven the Measure and the Choice.

The thing is, most people just don't enjoy haggling, period.

Any personal entanglement might mean bother, and bother was the thing she most abhorred.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Damn it, said Wimsey, savagely, I always did hate watering-places!