Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who…

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.

— Tony Kushner

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to…

— Hermann Hesse

“You don’t know what it’s like to worry you’ll start to despise the people who help you, the ones you should love, because they’re…

— Tracy Guzeman

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,…

— Kingsley Amis

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

I agree that biphobia is real, but I think it's absolutely worth considering that someone who "despises" having sex with her husband - and…

— Mallory Ortberg

If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is…

— Dale Carnegie

Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins

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

— Brian Eno

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I…

— George Bernard Shaw

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

It was beautiful and rare, and you have every right to despise me." She stood pressed to the wall, not moving. "When you came…

— Ayn Rand

“I'm really starting to despise good -nights and good -byes.”

— Mi Juan Yu tu

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise

— William Shakespeare