Despise Quotes · Page 17

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

— Susan Sontag

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

— Robert Walpole

A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

— Russell Green

Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest…

— Thomas Carlyle

I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of…

— Justin Broadrick

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

— Franz Grillparzer

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

— William Hazlitt

“[I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what…

— George Sand

I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather…

— Robertson Davies

I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet,…

— Mark Twain

When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise…

— Woody Hayes

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my…

— Thomas Huxley

Ronald Reagan basically legalized every illegal immigrant in this country. I just like to bring this up because every week I like…

— Bill Maher

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council,…

— Edward Jenks

Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn’t,…

— Gregory David Roberts

What could be nicer than to have three horrible children behind you in an airplane, and the next set, you go onstage…

— Joan Rivers

If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they…

— Harper Lee

If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be…

— Craig Johnson

Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is,…

— John Ruskin

I can by no means approve the scurrility and contempt with which the Romanists have often been treated. I dare not rail…

— John Wesley

The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and…

— Paul Strand

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

— Lord Byron

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

— Allan Massie

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

— Christopher Lasch

I just despise your desire to be different. My ten year old plan is just one year to finish.

— Nas

The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.

— Juvenal

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you…

— Boris Pasternak

Being on set is the thing I love the most, and a lot of the things that come alongside acting and entertainment…

— Cole Sprouse

“If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all.”

— Norm Chomsky

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.

— Saint Patrick

I despise - I hate - I'm terrified of karaoke, and I wish I wasn't because everybody I know who's awesome loves…

— Ben Feldman

I despise change. Although we can't run or hide from change simply because its inevitable, we can however prepare ourselves for it.

— OLAITAN FAGBAMILA

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

— Chanakya

However steep or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to higher levels!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

— Saint Augustine

“Let us spend our leisure with our books, which will take our minds off these troubles, and will teach us to despise…

— Poggio Bracciolini Stephen Greenblatt

I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in…

— Maurice Sendak