Despised Quotes

206 quotes by 180 authors

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory… — Charles Baudelaire
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. — Robert Burns
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and… — Giacomo Casanova
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled underfoot… — Mark the Evangelist
Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is… — Fanny Fern
That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can… — Phyllis Bottome
I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done...in behalf… — John Brown
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised… — Teresa of Avila
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself. — Seneca the Younger
Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible. — Samuel Johnson
Dangers by being despised grow great. — Edmund Burke
And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine… — Thomas a Kempis
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. — Edmund Burke
Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or… — Henri Nouwen
There is nothing more pleasing to God, than to see a soul who patiently and serenely bears whatever crosses it is sent; this is how… — Alphonsus Liguori
If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the… — Martin Luther
It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon… — John Owen
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the… — Christopher Hitchens

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