I Despise Quotes
83 quotes by 77 authors
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I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely pissed off that I'm circumcised.
— Howard Stern
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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."
— Gordon Allport
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Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.
— Lord Byron
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I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there…
— Muriel Barbery
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I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
— A.C. Grayling
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I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate…
— Conrad Veidt
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a…
— Edward Abbey
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People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's…
— Mike Tyson
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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I will NEVER back…
— Steven Pressfield
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I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that.
— Tim Cook
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I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who…
— Ernst Junger
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I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.
— Anais Nin
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I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
— Christopher Lasch
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I love football. I think it is most wonderful game in world and I despise to lose.
— Woody Hayes
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I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as…
— Robert Browning
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I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an…
— Aleister Crowley
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I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'.
— Gary Yourofsky
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
— Brian Eno
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