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dislike Quotes

39 of the best book quotes about dislike
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“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.”
02
“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.”
03
″‘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!’
04
“‘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.’”
05
“I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere.”
06
“Every young geisha may be proud of her hairstyle at first, but she comes to hate it within three or four days.”
07
“You can’t exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.”
08
“I am very strong. Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.”
09
″‘I hate meeting new people,’ she whispered. ‘Why?’ ‘Because they never like me.‘”
10
“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.”
11
“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.”
12
“‘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’”
13
“I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.”
14
“You do not like green eggs and ham? I do not like them, Sam-I-am.”
15
“I do not like them in a house. I do not like them with a mouse.”
16
If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.
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.’ ”
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″ 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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27
“Edward did not care at all for the word bunny. He found it derogatory in the extreme.”
28
″‘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.‘”
29
“Women are so emotional. Now there’s nothing I object to more than emotion.”
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
“Any cat can make a house seem haunted.”
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 want to be anyone but the person I am.”
37
“Harry was a white dog with black spots who liked everything, except...getting a bath”
38
“The feeling of shame and dislike is the principle of righteousness.”
39
″...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.”

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