"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."

 -Marcus Tullius Cicero



"All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit."

 -Sophocles



"Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure."

-Petrarch

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"If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust."
-Lord Chesterfield

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"Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust."
-Kenneth Rexroth

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"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."
-Marcus Tullius Cicero



"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 are most often disgusted with themselves."

-Germaine Greer



"A woman can hide her love for 40 years, but her disgust and anger not for one day."

-Arab Proverb