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 Copy Share Image
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat.,… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to… — Eustace Budgell Copy Share Image
Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Really? If I could hate my trainer? That would be ideal. I'd prefer to despise this person with the fire of ten… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Every religion oppresses women. I talk about the Koran because I know this book best. It allows for torture and other mistreatment,… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise… — Woody Hayes Copy Share Image
Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image