Disgust Quotes

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.

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.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

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.

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

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.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

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.

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

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.

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.

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.