23 Metaphors for hatred

Her hatred could be a deathless passion, and her love also; and the great question to be answered now was, did she truly love Jack Landis?

That woman, though unconsciously, has wrought me such irreparable harm that I ought to hate her, but cannot,first, because I am conscious that, had she never crossed my path, I should have probably found some other means to wreck my happiness; secondly, as Satan is a fallen angel, so hatred is degenerated love, and I never loved Laura.

Hatred of heresy was a sort of infectious germ, generated by the doctrine of exclusive salvation.

The Satanic hatred of this right was the cause of most of the martyrdoms and persecutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

[Footnote 4: Even hatred of crime committed is not repentance: repentance is the turning away from wrong doing: 'Cease to do evil; learn to do well.']

Hatred (which is not the same thing as moral indignation) is a poison which corrodes and embitters, and so degrades, and thereby weakens, the national spirit.

Hatred, suspicion, selfishness are the dominant notes.

His affectionate admiration of Napoleon, and his reminiscences of the great warlike deeds which were performed under him, and that at a time when these recollections were a consolation to the somewhat oppressed French; then his hatred of the domination of priests, and of the darkness which threatened to return with the Jesuitsthese are things to which one cannot refuse hearty sympathy.

One might think that the hatred of the barbarians was not the highest degree of morality, but perhaps for the political integrity of Greece it was.

Hatred is a most mysterious and painful phenomenon to the unhappy person who is the object of it, and more especially if he have incurred it by no one assignable reason.

The example before them must, doubtless, tend to increase this sentiment of genuine patriotism; for whoever came to France with but a single grain of it in his composition, must return with more than enough to constitute an hundred patriots, whose hatred of despotism is only a principle, and who have never felt its effects.

'Hatred is a word which I cannot understand,' replied Venetia.

Hatred is no good counsellor, gentlemen.

Her hatred of him was not a matter for argument.

In all the twenty-four years of her life she never had betrayed violence of spirit before: even her hatred of the Estenegas had been a religion rather than a personal feeling.

That hatred had become the central force in political affairs.

But not in anger alonein hatred too, which stands to anger like a chronic to an acute disease, a man may indulge with the greatest delight: [Footnote 1: Rhet., i., 11; ii., 2.] Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure, Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure

A hatred, disguised under the name of zeal, and covered with the specious pretext of observance of the law, was the first movement of the persecution which the Pharisees and the priests raised against the Son of God.

Hatred is a partisan, but love is even more so.

Race-hatred is undoubtedly nine-tenths the heritage of ancient gossip.

An active hatred is the most restless of all passions; and this feeling made Ithuel keenly alive to every chance which might still render the frigate dangerous to the lugger.

His artistic good taste, his classical polish, his sound shrewd sense, his hatred of cant, his insight into humbug above all, his shallow, pitiable habit of being always intelligiblethese are the sins which condemn him in the eyes of a mesmerising, table-turning, spirit-rapping, spiritualising, Romanising generation, who read Shelley in secret, and delight in his bad taste, mysticism, extravagance, and vague and pompous sentimentalism.

her hatred for another was the only obstacle to her making peace with God.

23 Metaphors for  hatred