Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.

If that somebody attempted to deny you of your privileges, you must oppose it. You must dislike it. You must battle against.

Not when truth is dirty but when it is shallow does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

Now I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked 'Howl's Moving Castle.' Lord give me strength! Also IT please disconnect the e-mail thing.

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science it is an aid to art.

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.

Sad people dislike the happy and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate and the careless the busy and industrious.

When I start to write words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition it seems will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written Republican politicians... if they all love you you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

He was an embittered atheist the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

Madam I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship.