I Despised Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best…
— Dean Dillon
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Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.
— Dorothy Dunnett
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Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take…
— Fritz Sauckel
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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
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I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Who wants to kill you?†the guy asked. He was still looking over his shoulder, but his expression was puzzled. “There’s nobody there,†the girlfriend…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one…
— Khalil Gibran
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If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others…
— Max Nordau
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When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out…
— Marian Keyes
Who Wrote These I Despised Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 I Despised Quotes as follows: