I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
God is wanting you to give Him the despised, the humdrum things in your life - like feet - and let Him… — Robert Pierce Copy Share Image
Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Men talk glibly enough about moonshine, as if they knew its qualities very well, and despised them; as owls might talk of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised. — Sallust Copy Share Image
Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
“Oppression doesn’t make people noble. Give any of us a little comfort, and we’ll kill to keep it. The despised become despicable.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I… — John Brown Copy Share Image
We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their… — Jeffrey Bernard Copy Share Image
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