#dislike

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#daughter #dead #dislike #father #i

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves. ↗

— August Strindberg

#courage #cowards #disliked #dogs #fight

The notion of children makes me ill. The thought of having one... when you see those guys in the supermarket, wheeling the trolley around while their brats whine and wheedle and some blundering sow questions every little thing they take off the shelves. I mean, just the fucking idea of it, the very word: family. Whenever I see it, on travel brochures, on house schedules... I feel sick. ↗

— John J. Niven

#dislike-for-children #humor #family

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

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#am #any #conservatism #dislike #entertain

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

— Michael Douglas

#disliked #fear #hand #i #more

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. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#because #been #dislike #had #may

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

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. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#easy #few #half #harder #out