Despising Quotes
32 quotes by 31 authors
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Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
— Aldous Huxley
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Oh!†said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say…
— Jane Austen
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair,…
— Jasper Fforde
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Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase of flowers. If…
— George MacDonald
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A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.
— Maria Montessori
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True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
— Tryon Edwards
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Even those who argue against fame still want the books they write against it to bear their name in the title and hope to become…
— Michel De Montaigne
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Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising…
— Horace
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Instead of despising your tests and trials, look forward to your testimony after all, you can't have a testimony without a test.
— Craig Williams
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The town is divided into various groups, which form so many little states, each with its own laws and customs, its jargon and its jokes.…
— Unknown Author
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