Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Despised as ineffective, they were ineffective because they were despised.” — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you? — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands. — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
What is it like to become what you once despised? What is it like to pile lies on top of lies? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I'd rather be despised for my character than be liked for my lack of it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to… — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share Image
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
“Psalm 106:24, 25: 'Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word; but murmured in their tents, and hearkened not… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“...what woman has ever stopped by a want of information? She felt. And despised him for not acting in accordance with her… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as… — Edward Lucie-Smith Copy Share Image
It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one;… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives… — George Sand Copy Share Image
There are some promises in the Bible which I have never yet used; but I am well assured that there will come… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast. Supporting a universe,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I hate pants. This is something I have inherited from my father. He despised pants, and my mother was never allowed to… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
The thought of the presence of God and the spirit of worship will in all my actions have as their immediate object… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised. — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“He told me off camera that he was despised by his neighbors for remembering when it was time to forget.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“A nation ashamed of it's ancestry will be despised by it's posterity.” — Charles B. Galloway Copy Share Image
I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age. — William Steig Copy Share Image
There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art… — Robbie Williams Copy Share Image
And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
You are still despised and mocked, A man too weak and infirm to be God, A God too much man to call… — Khalil Copy Share Image
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Home? I have no home. Hunted, despised, living like an animal. The jungle is my home. But I will show the world… — Ed Wood Copy Share Image
“There was a part of me, a large part, that wanted him to fuck me until I sobbed. Trouble was… I absolutely… — Megan Erickson Copy Share Image
This [a surprise attack] is an operation by no means to be despised in war, although it is rare, and less brilliant… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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