Despised Quotes

206 Despised quotes by 177 unique authors

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
The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the One full of… — Desmond Tutu
What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race… — Mark Twain
The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye. — Henry Ward Beecher
Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive… — Frederick Douglass
It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the… — Mark Twain
Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised. — Michel de Montaigne
My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. — Jesse Jackson
A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people… — Garrison Keillor
Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The… — Alison Bechdel
Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise. — Joyce Carol Oates
The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means… — John Calvin
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. — Charles Alexander Eastman
I've always despised the hippies. — John Lydon
Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?. — Thomas a Kempis
Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were… — Neal Stephenson
Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. — Jonathan Swift
There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold,… — Ernest Bramah
This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons of literature to… — Marcus Garvey
There are some promises in the Bible which I have never yet used; but I am well assured that there will come times of trial… — Charles Spurgeon
I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless. — Johnny Depp

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