Despise Quotes · Page 21

I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't…

— T. D. Jakes

[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Thucydides

He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis…

— Augusto Pinochet

The point is not to give people a break. The point is to tell all the truth you can bear about them…

— Rob Nilsson

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he…

— George Santayana

I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the…

— Wole Soyinka

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

— Seneca the Younger

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

— Marcus Aurelius

The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader…

— Ayelet Waldman

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do;…

— William Hazlitt

Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

— Voltaire

Never fear another challenger, no matter how large; Never despise another challenger, no matter how small.

— Morihei Ueshiba

If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as…

— Joan Didion

I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.

— Edmund Spenser

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.

— Martial

“You destruct the attention the world gives you when you mistrust your own ability”

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

— Quentin S. Crisp

To realize that the Holy Scriptures are a revelation from the Most High, communicating to us His mind and defining for us…

— Arthur W. Pink

Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and…

— Plutarch

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

— Plutarch

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man…

— George Washington

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