“Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself”
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American fantasy novelist 1974Related quotes
“We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.”
Anita's musings on Richard, the reluctant werewolf; unidentified edition/page
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Narcissus In Chains (2001)
“Most People dislike Vanity in others whatever Share they have of it themselves”
Part I, p. 2.
The Autobiography (1818)
Context: Indeed I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory Words, Without Vanity I may say, etc. but some vain thing immediately follow'd. Most People dislike Vanity in others whatever Share they have of it themselves, but I give it fair Quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of Good to the Possessor and to others that are within his Sphere of Action: And therefore in many Cases it would not be quite absurd if a Man were to thank God for his Vanity among the other Comforts of Life.
“I don't care what the editor likes or dislikes, I care what the people like.”
Crime Time interview (2001)
Sail 25 (p. 75)
Short fiction, Future Tense (1964)
Source: The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Stories
Clary and Jace, pg. 331
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLI : Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast; Helen to Esther
“Agreement in likes and dislikes—this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.”
Idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.
As quoted by Sallust (86 BC – c. 35 BC) in Catiline's War, Book XX, pt. 4 (trans. J. C. Rolfe).
Variant translations:
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
To like the same things and to dislike the same things, only this is a strong friendship.