Abhorrence Quotes
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“How abhorred in my imagination it is!”
“But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence.”
“Make the abhorrent eye
Roll back and close.”
“* * * few things loves better
Than to abhor himself.”
“Your arrogance in your manhood prevents you from understanding.”
“* * * more abhorr'd
Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.”
“The self-same thing they will abhor
One way, and long another for.”
“Boils and plagues
Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd
Further than seen.”
“Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.”
“There he lies, white and cold in death. You hate me, but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself.”
“A man who only becomes a husband brings pain to his parents, and a man who only becomes a son brings pain to his wife.”
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.”
“I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory.”
“Here was, perhaps, only another instance of mankind's abhorrence of actualities; and man's quaint dislike of facing reality was here disguised as a high moral principle.”
“We not only do not believe that any are foreordained to evil by the power of God, but even state with utter abhorrence that if there are those who want to believe so evil a thing, they are anathema.”
“The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle—their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man.”
“If, in proportion as our minds are enlarged, our hearts purified, and our consciences cultivated, our abhorrence of wrong and aversion to it increases, what must be the moral indignation of the infinite and holy God against wrong-doers?”
“It seemed, indeed, to Phineas that as Mrs. Low was buckled up in such triple armour that she feared nothing, she might have been less loud in expression her abhorrence of the enemies of the Church. If she feared nothing, why should she scream so loudly?”
“What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance which to me is most astonishing? That question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence those new fangled theories.”