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Despise Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
- Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise…
- It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages…
- There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
- We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
- Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
- Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man…
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- Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. — Marcus Aurelius
- A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin
- For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are… — Annie Besant
- Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we… — John O. Brennan
- Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with… — Alton Brown
- Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is… — Julie Burchill
- Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as… — Julie Burchill
- Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky
- I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely pissed off… — Howard Stern
- If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a… — William Cowper
- Where one despises, one cannot wage war. — Friedrich Nietzsche