Despised Quotes

206 Despised quotes by 177 unique authors

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
She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I… — James Ellroy
...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue,… — W. E. B. Du Bois
It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in… — Dave Pelzer
It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than… — E. M. Forster
Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against… — Andrew Murray
He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming… — Hermann Hesse
Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who… — Doris Lessing
But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is despised who can… — Steve Martin
Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and… — William Shakespeare

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