Despise Quote by Jonathan Swift Download Open image “Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.” — Jonathan Swift ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Despise Despised Inspirational Love Pride
Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised. — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Never despise anyone in life, you never know what might become of them tomorrow. — Jeromy Shingongo Copy Share Image
I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others. — George Stevens Copy Share Image
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be obliged to conceal them. And as it was tyranny in any government to require the first, so it was weakness not to enforce the second: for a man may be allowed to keep poisons in his… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life,… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I agree that biphobia is real, but I think it's absolutely worth considering that someone who "despises" having sex with her husband - and… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I despise a person of little mind - one might as well not have any. — Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins Copy Share Image
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It was beautiful and rare, and you have every right to despise me." She stood pressed to the wall, not moving. "When you came in, I thought 'Send her away.' But I knew that if you went away, I'd run after you. I thought 'I won't say a word.' But I knew that you'd know it before you left. I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
