Quotations on Disgust 14 Quotes Found Displaying 1 through 14
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses. - Margaret Cavendish (Keywords: Life, Disgust, Disorder, Senses, Yield) If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. - Lord Chesterfield (Keywords: Wife, Breeding, Contempt, Disgust, Familiarity, Intimacy, Man, Will) Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. - William Hazlitt (Keywords: Love, Disgust, Hatred, Indifference) The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror. - Rose Kennedy (Keywords: Time, Disgust, Will) Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move. - Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (Keywords: Home, Disgust, Style) Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Keywords: Music, Charm, Disgust, Horror) The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. - Laurence Olivier (Keywords: Purpose, Comedy, Disgust, Drama, Emotions, Exercise, Expression, Light, Office, Tears, Terror, Tragedy) Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. - Petrarch (Keywords: Mother, Cure, Disgust, Variety) Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job. - Jeremy Piven (Keywords: People, Performance, Disgust, Job, Theater) Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust. - Kenneth Rexroth (Keywords: Angels, Disgust, Ecstasy, Man) All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit. - Sophocles (Keywords: Nature, Disgust, Man) Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. - Robert Louis Stevenson (Keywords: Impression, Babies, Cannibalism, Disgust, Nothing) The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism. - Dennis Weaver (Keywords: People, Cannibalism, Disgust, Future, Will) Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. - Rowan Williams (Keywords: Anger, Time, Fear, Culture, Disgust, Limits, Old, Resentment)
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