Failure is no shame - but not making the attempt is…

I would of course like to think I've never done a truly despicable thing, but then again you don't always know.

— Finn Andrews

Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama…

— Colin Powell

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies

— Francois Fenelon

I guess there's nothing I don't like about Merlin, in this presentation. I love everything, even the things I find despicable and abhorrent in…

— Joseph Fiennes

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect…

— Jeremy Collier

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public…

— Donella Meadows

Reaching into one's own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person's pocket to assist one's…

— Walter E. Williams

The American experiment, the United States in the past eight years [2008-2016] was not considered worthy of leading, because we had committed too many…

— Rush Limbaugh

I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that…

— Forest Whitaker

Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to tact. Good-bye…

— Jack McDevitt

I'm not saying that all women are blameless - all women are not. There are women with despicable characters who are cruel and terrible…

— Gloria Steinem

Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

— William Hazlitt

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos,…

— Frank McCourt

People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse…

— Democritus