Despise Quotes · Page 19

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

— Khalil Gibran

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never…

— Otto Weininger

“How nearly can what we most despise and hate, approach in outward manner to that which we most venerate!”

— Walter Scott

I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in…

— Lori Foster

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

— Madame Roland

Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse…

— Laozi

If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the…

— Henry Arthur Jones

Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no…

— William Morris

The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to…

— Yukio Mishima

Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department…

— Kingsley Amis

Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift…

— Anne Rice

I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they…

— Joyce Carol Oates

If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise…

— Marcus Aurelius

Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the…

— Noam Chomsky

We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been…

— Anonymous

This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in…

— Albert Einstein

Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless…

— Muriel Barbery

be glαd of life, becαuse it gives you the chαnce to love αnd to work αnd to plαy αnd to look up…

— Henry Van Dyke

I can understand how people would despise my image and my father's persona. My father's image amongst the poorest of people, those…

— Juan Pablo Escobar

Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony…

— Michel de Montaigne

“I despise the morning... I am a creature of darkness, whose elements is night and shadow.I belong in the dark with the…

— Charlotte Featherstone

I despise favoritism. Those who I have met that do so is why I ignore there blah blah blah with no Jazz…

— Jennifer Amorelli

A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity.

— Diane Kruger

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was…

— Samuel Johnson

Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.

— Pythagoras

I despise this weakness in myself--this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action...

— Stef Penney

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.”

— Anthony Liccione

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

— Quentin Crisp

Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.

— Plutarch

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

— Charlize Theron

The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

— A.C. Grayling

“People who have been taught to despise themselves cannot easily respect others.”

— Karen Armstrong

Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?

— Orson Scott Card

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life

— Martial

I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loath and despise the groups they identify or belong to.

— George Carlin