These dislike quotes will inspire you. Dislike feeling distaste for or hostility toward.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging dislike quotes, dislike sayings, and dislike proverbs.
Best Dislike Quotes
- “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” ~ J. K. Rowling
- “There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.” ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “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.” ~ Eknath Easwaran
- “If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.” ~ Steve Pavlina , Dislike quotes life
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“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Do you like people? Most people claim that they like people with, of course, a “few exceptions.” When the exceptions are added together it becomes clear that they include a vast majority of the people. It becomes equally clear that most people like just a few people, their kind of people, and either do not actively care for or actively dislike most of the “other” people.” ~ Saul Alinsky
- “Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.” ~ Groucho Marx
- “No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.” ~ Russell Lynes
- “I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.” ~ Jackie Robinson
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“He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “I do know how to treat people and that is treat them the way I want to be treated. So when I extend that respect and that consideration that I would like to have, there is a certain amount of reciprocating. Some of the senators have even said words to the effect to me of “I can’t dislike you as much as I wish that I did”.” ~ Ernie Chambers
- “It’s fun to play the type of people you dislike.” ~ Jason Sudeikis
- “People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.” ~ Elizabeth Taylor
- “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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“Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.” ~ Alexander Hamilton
- “Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Dislike of another’s opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.” ~ John Lancaster Spalding
- “Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
- “They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.” ~ Thomas Hobbes
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“In almost everything I’ve written there is a thread of this: man’s seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.” ~ Rod Serling
- “The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.” ~ Will Rogers
- “To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.” ~ e. e. cummings
- “People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.” ~ Bette Davis
- “No, seriously, I really don’t have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike” ~ Boyd Rice
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“It’s a sin to hate, and for that reason alone, we must not hate the Normans… We can, however, thoroughly dislike them, Alice.” ~ Julie Garwood
- “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. The ultimate decision will be made by Time.” ~ Ford Madox Ford
- “Writers have opinions – that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.” ~ Frank Delaney
- “We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it’s vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.” ~ Marlon Brando
- “Love sinners, but hate their deeds, and do not disdain sinners for their failings, so that you yourself do not fall into the temptation in which they abide… Do not be angry at anyone and do not hate anyone, neither for their faith, nor for their shameful deeds… Do not foster hatred for the sinner, for we are all guilty… Hate his sins, and pray for him, so that you may be made like unto Christ, who had no dislike for sinners, but prayed for them.” ~ Isaac of Nineveh
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“I don’t hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else’s hate.” ~ Elsa Maxwell
- “I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike, to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature.” ~ Jane Porter , Dislike quotes person
- “A man’s worth can be judged through those who dislike him.” ~ Bill Loguidice
- “He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.” ~ George Orwell
- “We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.” ~ Laurell K. Hamilton
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“Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down inside, they love every minute of it.” ~ Brenda Fassie
- “Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.” ~ Mark E. Smith
- “The only thing a true introvert dislikes more than talking about himself is repeating himself.” ~ Jonathan Rauch
- “It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn’t believe it.” ~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
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“The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.” ~ Sydney J. Harris
- “Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.” ~ Edna Ferber
- “Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego’s likes and dislikes.” ~ Mata Amritanandamayi
- “To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.” ~ Walter Sickert
- “But how can we love someone if we don’t like him? Easy-we do it to ourselves all the time. We don’t always have tender, comfortable feelings about ourselves; sometimes we feel foolish, stupid, asinine, or wicked. But we always love ourselves: we always seek our own good. Indeed, we feel dislike toward ourselves, we berate ourselves, precisely because we love ourselves; because we care about our good, we are impatient with our bad.” ~ Peter Kreeft
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“It’s always harder satirize what you like rather than what you dislike.” ~ Robert Mankoff
- “I’ve got a great dislike of reunions. It’s a little like trying to go back and relive the best parts of your life, but you can’t do it. Nothing is ever the same.” ~ Eric Burdon
- “I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It’s like drinking wine that’s not ready.” ~ Jonathan Lethem
- “I’ve always been afraid of saying no to people because I don’t want them to be disappointed and dislike me.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
- “I don’t have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I’m drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years.” ~ Sefi Atta
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“If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.” ~ Richard Cecil
- “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.” ~ Tony Randall
- “I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.” ~ Anthony Trollope
- “What we dislike in others is often a weakness in our own lives.” ~ Gary Chapman
- “Pretty, and you may be talented, but nobody will remember that if you’re mean.” ~ Katie Holmes
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“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.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “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.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Hate is more lasting than dislike.” ~ Adolf Hitler
- “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.” ~ James Hilton
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“She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her — she was only an Object of Contempt” ~ Jane Austen
- “Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.” ~ Ravi Shankar
- “Love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike.” ~ Lady Violet
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“I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
- “There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much. It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory. I love what I’ve done and I just can’t stand to see what they’re doing to it. But I’ve learned to live with it because that’s what they’ve done. They’ve come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It’s not country anymore.” ~ George Jones
- “What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.” ~ Woody Allen
