Despise Quotes · Page 3

What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

— Hermann Hesse

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

— John Maynard Keynes

I despise sneaky people with agendas. you'll run across a lot of those in life.

— Anonymous

Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius

— Conn Iggulden

Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.

— Ben Jonson

The main thing I despise about America now is driving on the freeways.

— Jesse Ventura

I'm at the point where I just simply despise you.

— Anonymous

A true party-man hates and despises candour.

— Adam Smith

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

— Barry Lopez

The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation.

— Edward Gibbon

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to…

— François Fénelon

I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

— Suzanne Collins

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by…

— Brian May

“pr.1.7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.†”

— Anonymous

Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting…

— Roger Scruton

I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.

— Emma Donoghue

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence, Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise…

— Lupe Fiasco

I've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate…

— John Lennon

All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the…

— George Orwell

I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released, you refused…

— Melina Marchetta

Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for…

— Judith McNaught

“The most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being. Rather than trying to cut ourselves in two, we should cease…

— Alain de Botton

The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes…

— Honore de Balzac

“Despise everything that useless toil creates as an ornament and an object of beauty. And reflect that nothing except the soul is…

— Seneca

“Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It…

— Barbara Kingsolver

But it isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that.…

— Doris Lessing

To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works…

— Thomas Huxley

The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although…

— Francis Bacon

... the people who, in spite of the bonds of sin which fetter them and hinder them (by constraint and by inciting…

— Seraphim of Sarov

It depends on how you define the word "racialist." If you mean being conscious of the differences between men and nations, and…

— Enoch Powell

As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Seneca the Younger

I despise people who can't control themselves.

— Truman Capote

Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.

— Jean de La Fontaine

I despise research. I think it's a crutch.

— Howard Schultz

A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.

— Mencius

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

— Albert Camus

“SHAZAM: —I just don’t want to see us turned into something we despise.”

— Tom Taylor

Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.

— Anonymous