Odious Quotes

Without the meed of some melodious tear. - John Milton

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? - Walt Whitman

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. - Virginia Woolf

Time has touched me gently in his race,/ And left no odious furrows in my face. - George Crabbe

Thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / of beechen green, and shadows numberless, / Singest of summer in full-throated ease. - John Keats

This is an odious and appalling attack on ordinary people. - Nigel Dodds

This is a measure I undoubtedly hate as much as anyone on this floor, but it is far less odious than to do nothing. There's no possibility of improvement if we don't take the medicine that we need to get better. - Debra Bowen

The power of the executive to cast a man into prison, ... without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist. - Winston Churchill

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure. - Percy Bysshe Shelley