But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Let me follow in Thy footsteps, O Jesus ! I would imitate Thee, but cannot without the aid of Thy grace! O… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall.… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
I despise the fact that the youth today acts as if being youthful is the answer to everything. It's a very young… — Sean Garrett Copy Share Image
It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
It depends on how you define the word "racialist." If you mean being conscious of the differences between men and nations, and… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
