“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven? — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
You can't have employment and despise employers ... No goose, no golden eggs. — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“You hide it well, but I can see it, Lord Verniers. You hate us. We have beaten you to obedience but it's… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success,… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Some bolder spirits, indeed, might be expected to despise the cautious moderation of these timid reasoners, and to pronounce decisively, that the… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Do not despise any man, however poor he may be; but behave with full respect and kindness to every well-intentioned man, especially… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in… — Horace Copy Share Image
Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Anna despises two classes of people: first, those who own their own homes and have cars and families, and second, everybody else.… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means,… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The first thing Islam does is to destroy the self image of the believers. It convinces them that without Islam they are… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
