The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
Diogenes
ThreeFirstPleasureVineDisgust
When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call 'the Chicago way.'
Thomas Frank
FearChicagoThugWayRightDisgust
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
Orson F. Whitney
PoetryDisappointmentThoughtDisgust
The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.
Dennis Weaver
FuturePeopleSayWillWayDisgust
Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
Kenneth Rexroth
ManDieAngelsPigsWhereDisgust
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.
Jeremy Piven
JobPeoplePerformanceDoneDisgust
The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple.
Cory Booker
SimpleHatredDisgustFeltHostility
Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it.
Glen Duncan
BodyEscapeSmellAirDisgust
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
NothingMoreImpressionOwnDisgust
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.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
HomeStyleGoing HomeBackDisgust
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
GreatestPleasuresOnlyDisgust
If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.
Steve Allen
GodWarHimMustHolyDisgust
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
William Hazlitt
LoveAloneHatredLittleDisgust
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
Margaret Cavendish
LifeTrueSensesDisgustYieldDoth
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
Sophocles
NatureManOwnDisgustLeavesHis
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.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
GoodTogetherWifeManWillDisgust
Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.
James Buchan
FirstTopParadeAlmostDisgust
You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting our craziness, our meanness, our towering disgust.
Robert Crumb
ArtEnoughYouStumbleUsDisgust
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Petrarch
MotherVarietyCureSamenessDisgust
All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
Walter Benjamin
DisgustTouchingOriginally
The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
Rose Kennedy
TimeMirrorYouLookWillDisgust
The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.
Penn Jillette
GoodMeWashingtonPureDisgust
An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
Rachel Cusk
LoveEatingBodyFirstBeenDisgust
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