They Despise Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.
— Alton Brown
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We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is as much a…
— Desmond Morris
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The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. . . .…
— Margot Asquith
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A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise…
— Laozi
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The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This,…
— Martin Luther
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From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have no sympathy with…
— Bertrand Russell
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Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise…
— David Horowitz
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The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the…
— George Steiner
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They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.
— John Lennon
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There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that…
— Elaine Dundy
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Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius
— Conn Iggulden
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Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?
— Gene Wolfe
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The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or,…
— Eustace Budgell
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If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the…
— Carl Rogers
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
— Ian Frazier
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But…
— Max De Pree
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Those who practice magic know only evil. They despise and seek to destroy goodness wherever they find it.
— Uther Pendragon
Who Wrote These They Despise Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 They Despise Quotes as follows: