Despise Quotes · Page 15

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

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same…

— Jerome K. Jerome

This guy [Steven Lerner] is a pure anti-capitalist. He despises America. He is on a personal crusade.

— Rush Limbaugh

In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was…

— Charles Portis

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

— Anonymous

If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their…

— Gloria Steinem

“It is in the nature of 9 men out of 10 that what may be theirs for the picking up, they are…

— Georgette Heyer

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

— Hermann Hesse

Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common…

— John Calvin

The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence…

— Anonymous

She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and…

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the…

— Abraham Cowley

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over…

— Andre Maurois

If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of…

— Michael Faraday

Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a 'common purpose'. 'Cause…

— George Carlin

Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but…

— Oliver Goldsmith

I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and…

— Walter Lippmann

Time is what matters. As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our period, even…

— Yukio Mishima

No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion,…

— George Carlin

I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

— Chuck Klosterman

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

— Edmund Burke

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Thucydides

The settled man can cope with love and hate from others, but never with their indifference.

— James Huxley

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those…

— Eric Hoffer

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most…

— George Stevens

People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.

— Konstantin Ushinsky

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

— Thucydides

A wise traveler never despises his own country. [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]

— Carlo Goldoni

I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato…

— Werner Herzog

I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose.

— Woody Hayes

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

— J. Sidlow Baxter

“I so much despise a man who blows his own horn, that I go to the other extreme.”

— Candice Millard

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

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand