248.—Magnanimity despises all, to win all.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer…

— Jim Bishop

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

— Horace

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises…

— Carl Jung

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

— Salvador Dali

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing…

— William Congreve

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

— Hippocrates

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

— Anonymous

“My mother despises what can never truly be done so she does not care for cooking or cleaning.”

— Faith Shearin

“He who despises simplicity will shout for a simple lifebuoy when drowning in the ocean of complexity!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

— Bill Vaughan

Anna despises two classes of people: first, those who own their own homes and have cars and families, and second, everybody else. Constantly she…

— Elfriede Jelinek

Hollywood does not understand Middle America, and it certainly does not understand and, in fact, despises, the core values of the country.

— Steve Bannon

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

— Josh Billings

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche