Despise Quotes

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.

Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

Authority is never without hate.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise and hate.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that.

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

Can't really despise people you don't know.

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.

I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loath and despise the groups they identify or belong to.

I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian].

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

He will have true glory who despises it.

Some people insist that "mediocre" is better than "best." They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.