Despise Quotes

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman.

Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a' admirer que de choses a' me priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise.

There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius

Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

I despise a person of little mind - one might as well not have any.

Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself.

Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way.

Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.

I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

The main thing I despise about America now is driving on the freeways.

I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.

I hate, loathe, and despise Christmas. It's a time when single people have to take cover or get out of town.

In our house we don't use words like "despise" and 'hate,' we say "strongly dislike."

However steep or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to higher levels!

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

I’m sick of being everyone’s regret. My mother died in shame because she’d borne me. My father and brother despise me and my sister can barely look me in the eye! (Acheron)

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Do not despise or hate your neighbor because he has been a success; take care of your own case.

Genius can never despise labour.

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

First of all, Mets fans despise me.

Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.