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dislike Quotes

49 of the best book quotes about dislike
01
“I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.”
02
“I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere.”
03
“I am very strong. Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.”
04
“I do so hate to make up my mind about anything, whether it’s good or bad, up or down, in or out, rain or shine.”
05
If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.
06
“‘Listen to me, Greenbean.’ The boy wrinkled up his face, folded his arms. ‘I’ve seen you before. Something’s fishy about you showing up here, and I’m gonna find out what’”
07
“I do not like them in a house. I do not like them with a mouse.”
08
“You do not like green eggs and ham? I do not like them, Sam-I-am.”
09
“‘That was a tough year. I wasn’t liked at all,’ he later said. ‘I demanded they do better, so I made a lot of enemies.’”
10
″‘I hate meeting new people,’ she whispered. ‘Why?’ ‘Because they never like me.‘”
11
″‘I don’t know what you mean. I see nobody. I see nothing. I never have. I think you’re cruel. I don’t like you!’ Then, after this deliverance, which might have been that of a vulgarly pert little girl in the street, she hugged Mrs. Grose more closely and buried in her skirts the dreadful little face. In this position she produced an almost furious wail. ‘Take me away, take me away—oh, take me away from her!’
12
“Every young geisha may be proud of her hairstyle at first, but she comes to hate it within three or four days.”
13
“You can’t exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.”
14
“Miss Polly looked at the forlorn little gray bunch of neglected misery in Pollyanna’s arms, and shivered: Miss Polly did not care for cats—not even pretty, healthy, clean ones.”
15
“He asked you quite openly to flatter him, to admire him, his little dodges deceived nobody. What she disliked was his narrowness, his blindness, she said, looking after him.”
16
“When people like me, they like me “in spite of my color.” When they dislike me; they point out that it isn’t because of my color. Either way, I am locked in to the infernal circle.”
17
“I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.”
18
“Now Minnie likes just about everybody, but she sure don’t like Mexicans. So when you tell me, Minnie went to North side to visit her mama? Well I find that highly unlikely, but okay. Maybe.”
19
“I ran out of the kitchen and stormed up the stairs to my room. I slammed the door. I hated it when they had a fight in front of me. Didn’t they know how awful they sounded? I could still hear them, shouting and carrying on. ”
20
″ ‘Do you like my hat?’ ‘I do not like that hat.’ ”
21
″ I like the ZABLE on the TABLE. And the GHAIR under the CHAIR. But the BOFA on the SOFA ... Well, I wish he wasn’t there.”
22
“And that QUIMNEY in the CHIMNEY ... I don’t like him. Not at all.
23
″ ‘I’m scared,’ said Little Bear. ‘Why are you scared, Little Bear?’ asked Big Bear. ‘I don’t like the dark,’ said Little Bear. ‘What dark?’ said Big Bear. ‘The dark all around us,’ said Little Bear.”
24
“Sometimes my mother laughs like crazy at my jokes. Other times she pretends not to get them. And then, there are times when I know she gets them but she doesn’t seem to like them. This was one of those times. So I decided no more jokes until after dinner.”
25
Clarice leads a cool, socialized life. Chaotic expressive pictures work well with scattergun text itemizing clarice’s likes and dislikes, family, relatives and friends. Stereotyped mum (relaxes in the bath ) and dad ( big office with Ms Egglington to buzz you through ). Many 10 year old girls might want to be Clarice.
26
“Beegu didn’t like being alone. She needed to find some friends.”
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“The feeling of shame and dislike is the principle of righteousness.”
28
“I want to be anyone but the person I am.”
29
“Edward did not care at all for the word bunny. He found it derogatory in the extreme.”
30
“Of course there were many children in this class that were untidy and whom I did not like. Some were tough. So tough that I was afraid of them. But at least they did not have to sit right across the aisle from me. Nor did they try to be friendly as Edith did - whenever she happened to come to school.”
31
“She has narrow hands and a narrow face, Helen Bell. She is good at playing the piano. On the whole I don’t like people who are always playing the piano. They have mean little mouths.”
32
“She sang the song very softly: ‘I do not like the way you slide, I do not like your soft inside, I do not like you lots of ways, And I could do for many days without eggs’ ”
33
“And then, after a while, she said, ‘Christopher, let me hold your hand. Just for once. Just for me. Will you? I won’t hold it hard,’ and she held out her hand. And I said, ‘I don’t like people holding my hand.’ And she took her hand back and she said, ‘No. OK. That’s OK.‘”
34
″...if we do not like the person we have learned to be, should we just sit in front of our fufu, doing nothing? I think, James, that maybe it is possible to make a new way.”
35
″ ‘I don’t think I like boys,’ answered the Swallow. ‘Last summer, when I was staying on the river, there were two rude boys, the miller’s sons, who were always throwing stones at me.’ ”
36
″‘I can’t even look at him,’ he gasped. ‘I can’t even bear to look at him.‘”
37
“Harry was a white dog with black spots who liked everything, except...getting a bath”
38
″‘There are two things I’m quite certain of,’ I remarked, as we discussed the day’s doings while we brushed and plaited our hair. ‘I shall dislike Ernestine Salt exceedingly, but I’ve simply fallen in love with Catherine Winstanley.‘”
39
“Women are so emotional. Now there’s nothing I object to more than emotion.”
40
“Any cat can make a house seem haunted.”
41
“I never liked him, never!” “Never liked——?” said Antony, bewildered. “That cousin of his—Mr. Cayley.”
Source: Chapter 15, Lines 47-49
42
“I never liked him,” said Mrs. Norbury firmly. “Never.” However, thought Antony to himself, that didn’t quite prove that Cayley was a murderer.
Source: Chapter 15, Line 55
43
“I have promised to give my daughter to a man who loves her, but not to one who does not. See him there, cold as marble and proud like his father. If he were rich, if he had Cavalcanti’s fortune, that might be pardoned.
Source: Chapter 76, Paragraph 72
44
“Mademoiselle Eugénie scarcely answers me, and Mademoiselle d’Armilly, her confidant, does not speak to me at all.”
Source: Chapter 77, Paragraph 14
45
The baron adored Count Andrea Cavalcanti; not so Mademoiselle Eugénie Danglars. With an instinctive hatred of matrimony, she suffered Andrea’s attentions in order to get rid of Morcerf; but when Andrea urged his suit, she betrayed an entire dislike to him.
Source: Chapter 84, Paragraph 6
46
“No, it was not because I disliked Mr. Heathcliff, but because Mr. Heathcliff dislikes me; and is a most diabolical man, delighting to wrong and ruin those he hates, if they give him the slightest opportunity.
Source: Chapter 21, Paragraph 84
47
″‘Not at all,’ said Alice: ‘she’s so extremely—’ Just then she noticed that the Queen was close behind her, listening: so she went on—‘likely to win, that it’s hardly worth while finishing the game.‘”
Source: Chapter 8, Paragraph 52
48
That’s why they so dislike the living process of life; they don’t want a living soul!
Source: Chapter 20, Paragraph 75
49
“I got to go to church and sweat and sweat—I hate them ornery sermons!”
Source: Chapter 35, Paragraph 9

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