Despised Quotes

206 quotes by 177 authors

And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he… — Charles Dickens
So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from… — Cormac McCarthy
How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. — Emily Bronte
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest… — Susan B. Anthony
Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you? — Scott Westerfeld
The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and… — Ezra Pound
Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising. — Aldous Huxley
People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the… — Alice Hoffman
I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things.… — Anne Rice
I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked… — Alice Munro
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the… — Dorothy Allison
I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was… — Tanith Lee
Darkness coiled between what he wanted them to believe and the self he despised. It only made him more alone. How could you save someone… — Janet Fitch
He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the… — P.D. James
I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of course. Father had… — Margaret Atwood
one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a… — Mary Ann Shaffer
I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters… — Russell Kirk
It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in… — Bertrand Russell

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