Despise Quotes · Page 7

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise.

— Asking Alexander

People generally despise where they flatter

— Aristotle

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

— Ben Jonson

I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

When you can despise death, you have conquered all fears.

— Publilius Syrus

Regaining favor with your worst enemy is a satisfactory but short lived relief.

— Joseph O. Shelby

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

— John C. Maxwell

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

— Barbra Streisand

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

— Marcus Aurelius

I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

— Ludwig Van Beethoven

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

— Alexander Theroux

We are now living in a jungle where the strong eats the weak,we are not better than the Arabs to despise them.

— Ralph Fiennes

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I still love my dad and appreciate what he's done for me, but I despise some of the things he has done…

— Dwight Yorke

The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and…

— Johnny Giles

“And those who pretend to be teachers of others, and yet despise his teaching assistance, will one day find that they undertook…

— John Owen

I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and…

— Martin Luther

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for…

— James Weldon Johnson

Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself…

— Janet Morris

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

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the…

— Jonathan Swift

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if…

— Samuel Johnson

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely…

— George Bernard Shaw

What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows: "A good job is one in which I don't have to work,…

— Isaac Asimov

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged…

— Thomas Frank

So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome…

— Leo Tolstoy

I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the…

— Hermann Hesse

It was beautiful and rare, and you have every right to despise me." She stood pressed to the wall, not moving. "When…

— Ayn Rand

Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things,…

— Georges Bernanos

Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there? Should he not seek his own country? His miseries are his ally;…

— John Eldredge

…* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you…

— Sylvia Plath

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

— Confucius

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

— Quentin Crisp

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

— Blaise Pascal

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

— Josh Billings

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

— Virgil

“They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.”

— John Lennon

“I fear, I hate, I love, I envy and despise you […]”

— Virginia Woolf

I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.

— Norman Hartnell