People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful. — Norman Hartnell Copy Share Image
“Why do we despise one another? Don't we have the same God the Father, who created us?” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Two radical activists in an organizing group sometime despise each other and disagree with each other as much as a Republican and… — Grace Dunham Copy Share Image
To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify… — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a' admirer que de choses a' me priser. There are more things to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you? — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain? — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“God hides great things in little things. In every young girl, God hides a great woman; in every young boy, He hides… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
