“I didn’t care if they liked me or disliked me, as long as I had their respect.”

I think I earned the players’ respect, and that’s the ultimate in life, isn’t it?

There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.

He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right.

I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.

To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.

I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.

You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.

I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.

Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke:

I dislike religion quite intensely. It’s been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.