Quotes about Detestation
My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.
— Job 6:7
And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.
— Zechariah 11:8
There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue.
— John Adams
Men certainly speak peace to themselves when their so doing is not attended with the greatest detestation imaginable of that sin in reference whereunto they do speak peace to themselves, and abhorrency of themselves for it.
— John Owen
Putting aside everything that might excite laughter by its absurdity, or detestation by its profaneness, and confining ourselves merely to an examination of the parts, it is impossible to conceive a story more derogatory to the Almighty, more inconsistent with his wisdom, more contradictory to his power, than this story is.
— Thomas Paine
It had been so ugly, and Walter hated ugliness.
— LM Montgomery