Despised Quotes

206 Despised quotes by 177 unique authors

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him… — Margaret Cavendish
A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated. — Alphonsus Liguori
But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands. — Dorothy Dunnett
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. — Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty.… — Calvin Coolidge
Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take… — Fritz Sauckel
Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture. — Cressida Cowell
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the… — Joseph Campbell
Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before,… — Albert Einstein
I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is only… — Justus von Liebig
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 woman’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

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