Detestable Quotes
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Charles Bukowski
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
Karel Capek
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
Romain Rolland
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
Xun Zi
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Richard Steele