Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.
I'm a controversial figure: my friends either dislike me or hate me.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}
Well,†Tessa said, sighting along the line of the knife, “you behave as if you dislike me. In fact, you behave as if you dislike us all.†“I don’t,†Gabriel said. “I just dislike him.†He pointed at Will. “Dear me,†said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. “Is it because I’m better-looking than you?
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.
At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.
How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.