#disgust

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. ↗

— Steve Martin

#apology #bah #beneath #cowardly #dignity

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice. ↗

— George Mason

#appeared #business #common #conviction #disgusted

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

#causing #charm #disgust #ear #even

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit. ↗

— Sophocles

#does #his #leaves #man #nature

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. ↗

— Petrarch

#disgust #mother #sameness #variety

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust. ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

#die #disgust #ecstasy #man #pigs

If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait. ↗

— Diego Rivera

#ever #frida #her #hurt #i

Dad scowls. "Phen." He says the name like it's a swear word. "Disgusting, cowardly creatures, the ambivalent. Worse than the fallen, in many ways." His eyes are so fierce it's a tad scary. "They have no conviction at all. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#angels #anger #conviction #cowardly #disgust

The — the prophecy . . . the prediction . . . Trelawney . . .” “Ah, yes. How much did you relay to Lord Voldemort?” “Everything — everything I heard! That is why — it is for that reason — he thinks it means Lily Evans!” “The prophecy did not refer to a woman. It spoke of a boy born at the end of July —” “You know what I mean! He thinks it means her son, he is going to hunt her down — kill them all —” “If she means so much to you, surely Lord Voldemort will spare her? Could you not ask for mercy for the mother, in exchange for the son?” “I have — I have asked him —” “You disgust me. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#anguish #disgust #lily-evans #prophecy #severus-snape

Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #humor #ron-weasley #humor