Despised Quotes

206 Despised quotes by 177 unique authors

O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should… — William Shakespeare
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated… — George Sand
Among the authorities it is generally agreed that the Earth is at rest in the middle of the universe, and they regard it as inconceivable… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best… — Unknown Author
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea… — William Hazlitt
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on… — Hans Arp
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. — Edmund Burke
I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age. — William Steig
Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything. — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
My genes tie me to those that despised me. — Brother Ali
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was — Paul Muldoon
Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil… — Hunter S. Thompson
For centuries, Jews have been unjustly treated and despised. It is time they were treated with justice and humanity. God wills it and the Church… — Pope Pius XII
When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses. — Andrew Sullivan
The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised. — Laozi
Conservatives are people who worship at the graves of dead radicals. Stop to think about that. The people who started this country, George Washington, Jefferson,… — Tony Campolo
One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort… — Hjalmar SÃ¶derberg
Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives. — Jeffrey Bernard
The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women's Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity,… — Bennett Madison
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the… — A. Philip Randolph
I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the… — Nina Bawden
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore in religions, because… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've… — Scott Stapp

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