Despise Quotes · Page 14

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.

— Iggy Pop

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

— William Cowper

there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the…

— Doris Lessing

I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the…

— Edward Abbey

It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.

— Ovid

Your enemy is the person or people who did this...not the people you already despise for having different views.

— Anonymous

Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.

— Lady Jane Grey

Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.

— Humphrey Bogart

Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to…

— Horace

Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence,…

— William Hazlitt

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains…

— Robert A. Heinlein

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise…

— Anonymous

It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and…

— Albert Einstein

The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything…

— Sergey Nechayev

There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom,…

— Louisa May Alcott

Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative…

— David Horowitz

There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize…

— Henry Miller

We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is…

— Desmond Morris

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive,…

— Anton Chekhov

... faithfully and strenuously you should resist the heretics in defense of the only true and life-giving faith, which the Church has…

— Pope Clement I

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself)…

— Francis Bacon

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous. This is where a lot of them miss the boat.…

— Marilyn

It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are…

— Annie Besant

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

— Linda Chavez

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

— Anonymous

To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.

— John Bunyan

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be…

— Dale Carnegie

The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.

— Quentin S. Crisp

However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.

— Periander

So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

— Daniel Keyes

I think we must be very careful not to make our daughters despise men. For example, there is too much comedy around…

— Maureen Lipman

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

— Francis Bacon

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

— Confucius

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

— Brian Eno

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be…

— Don Herold