“I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.”
Sketchbook 1966-1977
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Swiss playwright and novelist 1911–1991Related quotes
“I hate people forcing me to talk about my feelings,” said Alec.”
Source: Born to Endless Night
Letter to Ernest Fenollosa, December 1898, cited from Elizabeth Bisland (ed.) Life and Letters (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923) vol. 3, p. 147.
“They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.”
1930s, Address at Madison Square Garden (1936)
Context: We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.
“I don't love kids. I hate their predators. It's a burning hatred I feel to this day.”
Michael Heaton Cleveland Plain Dealer on March 6, 2003
Source: Quartered Safe Out Here (1992), p. 127.
Letter to Frances Stevenson (22 January 1929), quoted in My Darling Pussy: The Letters of Lloyd George and Frances Stevenson, 1913–41, ed. A. J. P. Taylor (1975), p. 114
Leader of the Liberal Party
“I hated him. I hated them all. They made me hate myself even more than I already did.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
