"Hatefulness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... meekly hand it to her, shouldn't we! And do you know, even if I was simply positive it was hers, I just wouldn't give it to her, anyway, for a while. I'd let her stew and fret for it for a good long spell—after such hatefulness!" ...
— The Dragon's Secret • Augusta Huiell Seaman
... compassion that we feel for our own vices when we perceive their hatefulness in other people." Charity, then, is but another name for selfishness, and must be ...
— Samuel Butler's Cambridge Pieces • Samuel Butler
... important cares and duties such thoughts were ever of unspeakably greater interest and importance to me. They were never dull or tedious, never bored me, and were my consolation in times of gloom and discouragement. The pain they brought was also dear to me, and never possessed the loathsome hatefulness ...
— The Bride of Dreams • Frederik van Eeden
... truth and duty; and secondly, the standard of measurement and comparison. The more we live in God and unto God, the more do our eyes become enlightened to see the enormity and deformity of sin, so that we recognize the hatefulness of evil more distinctly: and the more clearly do we recognize the perfection of God's holiness and make it the pattern and model ...
— George Muller of Bristol - His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God • Arthur T. Pierson
... falls into a dark cave, incapable of communicating to it either heat or illumination, serves merely to set in motion the poisonous vapours. The delineation of this monster is throughout inconceivably consistent and profound, and, notwithstanding its hatefulness, by no means hurtful to our feelings, as the honour of human nature ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black |
