#dislike

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult. ↗

— John Masefield

#cannot #commonplace #dare #dislike #exult

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#dislike #does #enlightened #into #man

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship. ↗

— Sallust

#friendship #like #makes #same #solid

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. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#art #criticism #dislike #function #help

Best friends one, and now we have almost nothing to say to each other. It was interesting, how he had joined those guys and I just stayed on my own. I didn't like it or dislike it. It was just funny that things had turned out that way. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#friends #funny #interesting #like #the-way-things-turn-out

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#depend #dislikes #egotism #identity #likes

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#characters #creating #define #dislike #embellish

Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it. ↗

— Michael Douglas

#disliked #fear #hand #i #more

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida. ↗

— Walter Legge

#disliked #english #i #liked #neither

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States. ↗

— Preston Manning

#american #canadian #definition #dislikes #fears