Top Detestable Quotes
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
Curt Flood
When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
Xun Zi
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
Romain Rolland
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Richard Steele
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
Xun Zi
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If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
Curt Flood 
63% of people like this quote
When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
Xun Zi
55% of people like this quote
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
Romain Rolland
52% of people like this quote
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Richard Steele
51% of people like this quote
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
Xun Zi
50% of people like this quote
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Charles Bukowski
48% of people like this quote
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
Karel Capek
47% of people like this quote
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
39% of people like this quote
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