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Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.
Author:
Dennis Weaver
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
Author:
Sophocles
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Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
Author:
Kenneth Rexroth
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Author:
Petrarch
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The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
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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.
Author:
Wolfgang Mozart
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Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
Author:
Augustus Longstreet
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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
Author:
Rose Kennedy
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
Author:
Diogenes
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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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
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
Author:
Walter Benjamin
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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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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
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If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.
Author:
Steve Allen
