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Letter "D" » disgust
«A woman can hide her love for 40 years, but her disgust and anger not for one day»
«I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| About:
Newspapers
| Keywords:
disgust, shudder, shuddered, shuddering, shudders
«If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.»
«It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.»
Author: Havelock Ellis
| Keywords:
ancestors, antelope, conscientiously, curious, Darwin, disgust, elephant, Elephant Man, evolution, instinctive, nearest, relations, ridicule, spared, The Elephant, The Elephant Man, traced
«I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
coldness, disgust, display, humiliated, humiliating, missed, restraint, shaft, shafting, shafts, temperamental, The Mark of, unavoidably, unduly
«ACHIEVEMENT, n. The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.»
«After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Silence
| Keywords:
disgust, disgusts, moment of silence, mumble, mumbled, mumbling, peculiar
«England and the English As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unlivable to them unless they have tea and puddings»
«If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
aside, breeding, coarse, coarser, coarsest, degenerate, disgust, familiarity, infallibly, intimacy, lay aside, mistress, nights, productive
«Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats»
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