I can but pray the Father o' a' to haud his e'e upon her…

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

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

— Josh Billings

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

— Steve Bannon

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

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

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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

— Faith Shearin

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

— Anonymous

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

— Hippocrates

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

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

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

— Salvador Dali

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

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

— Horace

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche