I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
I detest those who deceive me.
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.
In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places!
No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.
Complainers detest each other.
One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.
Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.
I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.
I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.
I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and immoveable, and that the earth is not at the center of same, and that it does move. Wishing however, to remove from the minds of your Eminences and all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion reasonably conceived against me, I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error, heresy, and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church. (Quoted in Shea and Artigas 194)
One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.
