Despise Quotes

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head.

Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.

I despise shopping and department stores.

I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.

What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian

Russia despises the West. And is doing what it can to weaken the West.

why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.

I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise

I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!

I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?

One may like the love and despise the lover.

Two radical activists in an organizing group sometime despise each other and disagree with each other as much as a Republican and Democratic politician do.

The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield them that which they will hereafter despise the donors for granting them.

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away. [Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]

Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.

I despise in others my own characteristics.

Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.

We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking.

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.

Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.

As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward.

If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.

This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

If you want to kill me, despise me, hate me, and live in an unsightly way... Run, and cling to life, and then some day, when you have the same eyes as I do, come before me

Those that despise peace and admire war are crushed under the boots of the war!

Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent; applaud the peaceful; despise the brute force!