Dandyism is especially likely to appear in those transitional ages in which democracy is not yet all-powerful and the aristocracy ...is only partially faltering and debased. In the confusion of such times certain men, déclassé, disgusted, idle, but all endowed with native strength, may conceive the project of founding a new kind of aristocracy, which will be all the more difficult to destroy as it will be based on the most precious and indestructible faculties, and on the God-given gifts which work and wealth cannot bestow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The traveller, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he ask...s himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night af...ter night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they ar...e most often disgusted with themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, a...nd disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The people needed to be rehoused, but I feel disgusted and depressed when I see how they have done it. It did not suit the planner...s to think how they might deal with the community, or the individuals that made up the community. All they could think was, "Sweep it away!" The bureaucrats put their heads together, and if anyone had told them, "A community is people," they would not have known what they were on about.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the app...etite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You ask can we ever trust the Bear?... I will give you several answers at once. The first is no, we can never trust the Bear. For ...one reason, the Bear doesn't trust himself. The Bear is threatened and the Bear is frightened and the Bear is falling apart. The Bear is disgusted with his past, sick of his present and scared stiff of his future. He often was. The Bear is broke, lazy, volatile, incompetent, slippery, dangerously proud, dangerously armed, sometimes brilliant, often ignorant. Without his claws, he'd be just another chaotic member of the Third World.... The second answer is yes, we can trust the Bear completely. The Bear has never been so trustworthy. The Bear is begging to be part of us, to submerge his problems in us, to have his own bank account with us, to shop in our High Street and be accepted as a dignified member of our forest as well as his.... The Bear needs us so desperately that we may safely trust him to need us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »