Despises Quotes

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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin
Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through… — Julie Burchill
Where one despises, one cannot wage war. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh… — Mary Wortley Montagu
[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who… — Tertullian
All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing,… — Alexander Herzen
If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it… — Georges Bernanos
Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar. — Leonardo da Vinci
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart. — Confucius
Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what name, will be allowed to remain here without my written permission. I know of no other troublesome pest… — Maria Theresa
His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises. — Samuel Johnson
How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises? — Stephen Fry
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men. — Michel de Montaigne
A wise traveller never despises his own country. — Carlo Goldoni
If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven? — Josh Billings
One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises. — Ambrose Bierce
In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the name of justice… — Eugene Ionesco
On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition -… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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