If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only…

“Every anonymous communication is deserving of contempt, just because it's not signed.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

— Thucydides

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.

— William Cowper

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

— Chief Joseph

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

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