Top 40 Detest Quotes

I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I’d never leave my keyboard.

I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

I think that’s an incredible thing that we can do as actors – to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

Actually, I don’t even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don’t like places where the noise is so loud you can’t talk to people.

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

I loathe and detest people who pretend they don’t care what people think about them as if that is a virtue, when it is simply rude.

I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance – the less of you I can see, the closer you must be to God.

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

There’s two or three managers I can’t stand. I detest them and they know that.

You can’t make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

I’m not wholesome at all. I detest homey things like cooking and bed-making and Peter Pan collars. I like to wear slacks and play golf.

As for my looks, if I didn’t look the way I do, I would probably be one of those many faces doing a romcom, which I detest. The way I look has somewhere defined the characters I played. My weakness has become my strength.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

I detest jokes – when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn’t know it’s funny or doesn’t treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it’s a sort of rage against society.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

Wandering around the mall and giggling at magazines doesn’t interest me. I’ve never enjoyed shopping. I detest shoes.

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.

I detest audiences. Not in their individual components but en masse… I think they are a force of evil.

I loathe and detest heavy metal.

But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it’s America’s bullying foreign policy they detest.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

I seldom have my stuff up unless I’m testing it. If I’m worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

I detest ‘Jingle Bells,’ ‘White Christmas,’ ‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,’ and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest.

I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode.

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

I detest people who lie. I can’t stand it.

I really detest brunch. I think it’s a waste of a good day. Detest is a little too severe, but I would say I’m not a brunch person.

I adore my houses – they’re my refuge – but I detest more and more Saint-Tropez where it’s impossible to live: invaded by tourists, social evenings, all of which I avoid and which terrorises me.

One thing I detest, I have to say, is when a shoe is too soft, and it’s molding to the foot. This is quite disgusting. And I really, really hate incredibly long shoes, where the last is very pointy, almost like Aladdin.

I really detest movies like ‘Indecent Proposal’ and ‘Pretty Woman’ because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that’s such a small part of it.

I only really like to watch things like ‘Time Team.’ I’d rather be out walking the dog. It’s all reality TV, which, as an actor, I detest.

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.

I love spicy food, so I’m not sure why I have this aversion to wasabi, but I really detest it.