Hatred

Can there be anything more mean,
More malice in disguise,
Than praise a man for doing what
That man does most despise?
~ William Blake, from The Rossetti Manuscript (aka MS. Book; c. 1793-1811). Epigrams, and Short Satirical Pieces. On Art and Artists. XVII

Would you like to hear a nice definition of jealousy? It's the feeling that you get when someone you absolutely detest is having a wonderful time without you.
~ William Peter Blatty, Legion (1983).

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
~ William S. Burroughs, in The New Yorker magazine (18 August 1997). Entry in journal (31 May 1997)

I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is: What are they in a position to do about it?
~ William S. Burroughs, Early Routines (1981).

The hateful Now each moment mocks
The over-happy Then.
~ William McKendree ("Will") Carleton, from Farm Festivals (1881). The Festival Of Praise; Or, Thanksgiving Day

I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
~ Willa Sibert Cather, The Song of the Lark (1915). Part VI. Kronborg. Chapter IX

I hate this spungy world, with all its store,
This bustling, noisy, nothingness of life,
This treacherous herd of friends with hollow core,
This vale of sorrow, and this field of strife.
~ William Cliffton, in Poems, Chiefly Occasional (1800). Il Penseroso

She likes herself, yet others hates
For that which in herself she prizes;
And while she laughs at them, forgets
She is the thing that she despises.
~ William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret (1698)

[I]n my soul I loathe
All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn;
Object of my implacable disgust.
~ William Cowper, The Task (1785). Book II. The Time-Piece

It is the wit,
The policy of sin, to hate those men
We have abus'd.
~ Sir William Davenant, The Just Italian (1630). Act III, scene i

'Tis strange how men find time to hate,
When life is all too short for love.
~ William Henry (W.H.) Davies, Forty New Poems (1918). Come, Let Us Find

I despise men and nations which judge human beings by their color, religious beliefs or income.
~ William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois, In Battle for Peace: The Story of My 83rd Birthday (1952).

I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.
~ Will Durst

If there's one thing gets under my skin, it's a damn hypocrite.
~ William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (October 1929).

Anyone who hates Dogs and Kids can't be all bad.
~ W.C. Fields, Attributed

We're a city too busy to hate.
~ William B. Hartsfield, (1961)

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
~ William Hazlitt, Characteristics: in the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims (1823).

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
~ William Hazlitt, from The Plain Speaker, Volume II (1826). On Reading Old Books (1821)

Hate injustice and falsehood for your own sake.
~ William Hazlitt, Table-talk; Or, Original Essays, Volume II (1825 edition). On The Conduct Of Life; or, Advice to a School-Boy (1822 essay)

[H]ave I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
~ William Hazlitt, from The Plain Speaker, Volume I (1826). On the Pleasure of Hating

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.
~ William Hazlitt, from The Plain Speaker, Volume I (1826). On the Pleasure of Hating

I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me.
~ William Hazlitt, from The Plain Speaker, Volume II (1826). On Depth and Superficiality

Never despise any one at all; for contempt implies a triumph over and pleasure in the ill of another.
~ William Hazlitt, Table-talk; Or, Original Essays, Volume II (1825 edition). On The Conduct Of Life; or, Advice to a School-Boy (1822 essay)

The cannibals burn their enemies and eat them in good-fellowship with one another: meek Christian divines cast those who differ from them but a hair's-breadth, body and soul into hell-fire for the glory of God and the good of his creatures! It is well that the power of such persons is not co-ordinate with their wills ...
~ William Hazlitt, from The Plain Speaker, Volume I (1826). On the Pleasure of Hating

The definition of a true patriot is a good hater.
~ William Hazlitt, from The Round Table, Vol. II (1817). On Good-Nature

The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to rankling spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness, and a narrow, jealous, inquisitorial watchfulness over the actions and motives of others.
~ William Hazlitt, from The Plain Speaker, Volume I (1826). On the Pleasure of Hating

We can scarcely hate any one that we know.
~ William Hazlitt, Table-Talk, or Original Essays on Men and Manners, 2nd series (1824). Why Distant Objects Please

Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others.
~ William Henry ("Will") Irwin, in Survey Graphic, XXV (June, 1936). The Pleasures of Hate

If there is anything I hate, it is collecting.
~ William James, in The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 (1920). Letter to His Parents (Oct. 22, 1865)

The only problem with drawing Nixon is restraint. Your tendency is to let your feelings come out. He's such a loathsome son of a bitch, and he looks so loathsome.
~ William H. (Bill) Mauldin

Hate can only flourish where love is absent.
~ Dr. William C. Menninger

I shall will that my soul must be cleansed of hate.
~ William H. A. Moore, in The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922). It Was Not Fate

For ever must the rich man hate the poor.
~ William Morris, from The Earthly Paradise (1868-70). Bellerophon At Argos: Argument

Man is so much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to contempt for himself.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.
~ Liam O'Flaherty, (1925)

Despise nobody, nor no Condition; lest it come to be thine own.
~ William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude (1693). Part I. Personal Cautions

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.
~ (William) Brad Pitt

Malice ... has a keen scent for blemishes.
~ William Morley (W.M.) Punshon, from Lectures and Sermons (1873). Lectures. Daniel in Babylon

When I think of how little others have had, with better right than mine, I confess it is not the world I hate, nor the people in it, but only me.
~ William Marion Reedy

Since anti-Semitism is the great heresy of modern times, a person so accused is immediately subjected to such doses of social ostracism and economic attrition that any normal private life or successful public career will be permanently closed to him. It is consequently small wonder that the Western intellectual establishment has shied away from such a thankless and unprofitable task
~ Wilmot Robertson, The Dispossessed Majority (1972).

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.
~ George William (A.E.) Russell, The Living Torch (1937).

Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil.
~ William Saroyan, The Time of Your Life (1939 play).

I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.
~ William Saroyan, The Bicycle Rider in Beverly Hills (1952).

All the infections that the sun sucks up
From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him
By inch-meal a disease!
~ William Shakespeare, The Tempest. Act II, scene ii

But when we in our viciousness grow hard --
O misery on't! -- the wise gods seel our eyes;
In our own filth drop our clear judgments.
~ William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra. Act III, scene xiii

Revenge should have no bounds.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet. Act IV, scene vii

Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye!
~ William Shakespeare, King Henry VIII. Act II, scene ii

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?
~ William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing. Act I, scene i

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.
~ William Shatner

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman

Throughout life people will make you mad
Disrespect you and treat you bad
Let God deal with the things they do
Cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
~ Will Smith, Just the Two of Us (2001).

Do I hate you? No! Not hate?
Hate's a word far too intense,
Too alive, to speak a state
Of supreme indifference.
~ William Wetmore Story, from Graffiti d'Italia (1868). Black Eyes

One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero (1848). Chapter XVIII. Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought?

Ah vain, thrice vain in the end, thy rage and hate.
~ William Watson, from Epigrams of Art, Life and Nature (1884). LXV. A Sometime Contemporary

We hold our hate too choice a thing
For light and careless lavishing.
~ William Watson, from New Poems (1909). Hate

If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
~ Billy Wilder, quoted in The Associated Press (28 March 2002). Oscar Winner Billy Wilder Dies

A friend of mine once said that hate is too important an emotion to waste on someone you don't like. And I've tried desperately to get my psyche in shape to more or less fend off any of those feeling that are going to mar my life.
~ Joe Williams, (1995)

I think that hate is a thing, a feeling, that can only exist where there is no understanding.
~ Thomas Lanier ("Tennessee") Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth (1959). Forward

They did not dislike what they called "squares." They loathed and despised them, and for the best of reasons. Their existence was a never-ending contest with the squares of the world, the squares who have such virulent rage at everything not in their book.
~ Thomas Lanier ("Tennessee") Williams, from Hard Candy: A Book of Stories (1954). Two on a Party

Anyone can hate.
It costs to love.
~ John Williamson

We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply seek to manage the effects of hatred, which does need to be done, of course. But if all we do is manage the effects of hatred, then hatred will simply stalk us the next decade or the next generation. We need to dismantle hatred itself.
~ Marianne Williamson, CNN TV "Larry King Weekend" (14 October 2001).

Your neighbor is anyone who is in need. If you do not help your neighbor, your neighbor will hate you. And hate, when multiplied, threatens the safety and security of all of us.
~ Charles V. Willie, Address to Certificate Recipients at Harvard College, Cambridge MA (6 June 1996). The Civic Responsibility of Education Proclaimed

I have unlearned contempt.
~ Nathaniel Parker (N.P.) Willis, from Poem delivered before the Society of United Brothers at Brown University, with Other Poems (1831). Poem

Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.
~ Robert Anton Wilson, from Right Where You Are Sitting Now: Further Tales of the Illuminati (1982).

[Poets], like whores, are only hated by each other.
~ William Wycherley, The Country Wife (1673). Act III, scene ii

An intellectual hatred is the worst,
So let her think opinions are accursed.
~ William Butler Yeats, from Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921). A Prayer for My Daughter (June 1919).

At certain moments, always unforseen, I become happy. ... everything fills me with affection, I have no longer any fears or any needs; I do not even remember that this happy mood must come to an end. ... It may be an hour before the mood passes, but lately I seem to understand that I enter upon it the moment I cease to hate.
~ William Butler Yeats, Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918). Anima Mundi. XIX