49 Quotes About Disliking Someone

When someone does something wrong to you, it can lead to resentment. Hatred is normally caused by differences that exist and later spur on conflicts. Here are some great quotes about disliking someone that capture these unique characteristics.

“A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!”

“All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.”

“Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.”

“For the judging of contemporary literature the only test is one’s personal taste. If you much like a new book, you must call it literature even though you find no other soul to agree with you, and if you dislike a book you must declare that it is not literature though a million voices should shout you that you are wrong.”

“From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others.”

“Hate is more lasting than dislike.”

“Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.”

“He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”

“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.”

“How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.”

“I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.”

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”

“I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation.”

“I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life – to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one’s neighbors.”

“I love everyone. Why? The moment I dislike someone, they own me. They own my energy, thoughts, feelings, etc…”

“I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.”

“I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.”

“I’m not. I don’t – I don’t dislike anybody. Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world. But my faith is based on what I believe the scripture says, and that’s the way I read the Scripture.”

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”

“Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.”

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”

“Most of the time the ones who dislike the pictures the most confirm to me that the picture has hit home and is probably truer than I know. Nobody minds a boring picture, they mind a picture that has gotten to the soft core.”

“My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they’re where the trouble really lies.”

“No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.”

“Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.”

“One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain.”

“One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity for surprise.”

“Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.”

“Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.”

“The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.”

“The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don’t realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions.”

“The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.”

“The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.”

“The one thing that I really dislike, is being alone.”

“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.”

“The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between ‘for’ and ‘against’ is the mind’s worst disease.”

“The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.”

“There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike – information and wit”

“There are two things that if you do them you will attain the good of this world and the hereafter; [They are] that you bear what you dislike if it is beloved to Allah and you leave what you like if it is disliked by Allah.”

“There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”

“There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.”

“There’s only one thing worse than a man who doesn’t have strong likes and dislikes, and that’s a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.”

“To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.”

“To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.”

“We look at the world through our likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, opinions and judgments. We want everyone to behave as we think they should; otherwise we get agitated. But we are here to accept the world as it is, even as we work to make it better.”

“What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.”

“What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.”

“What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.”

“When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.”

It can be difficult to deal with people you have a disliking for. Being patient and seeking a common ground can be mutually beneficial for all parties involved.