Despised Quotes

206 quotes by 177 authors

To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse. — W. C. Sellar
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most… — Henry Walter Bates
The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man… — Ayn Rand
He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a… — Louise Erdrich
Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a womanâ€™s breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing… — Charles Spurgeon
Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of the soul. Do… — J C Ryle
We must by every means humble our hearts and subdue our proud intellect, lest we should be like the contemporaries of the prophets, who looked… — John of Kronstadt
Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no more highly when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, foolish,… — Francis of Assisi
Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do you wish to… — Thomas a Kempis
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer. — Baron de Montesquieu
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by… — Georg Baselitz
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different… — Hu Shih
To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated,… — Clarence Darrow
It doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pain, we will find more… — Sarah Miles
It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and good people who… — Cyprian
He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture. — R. Scott Bakker
Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want… — George W. Bush
Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised. — G. Willow Wilson
If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness… — Germaine Greer
Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in… — Marion Woodman

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