"Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something." - Anton Chekhov, Notebooks

"I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back." - Zsa Zsa Gabor

"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, Beyond Good and Evil

"I do desire we may be better strangers." - William Shakespeare, As You Like It

"To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction." - MINNA ANTRIM, Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions

"Now Hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure."
- LORD BYRON, Don Juan

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." - HERMANN HESSE, Demian

"Any kiddie in school can love like a fool,
But hating, my boy, is an art."
- OGDEN NASH, Plea for Less Malice Toward Men

"Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad." - LEO ROSTEN, speech (at a dinner honoring W.C. Fields, 1939)

"Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.
Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous."
- JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, Confessions

"That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers." - Niven, Larry, and Jerry Pournelle in 'Oath of Fealty'

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)