Despise Quote by Pierre Corneille

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

— Josh Billings

Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

— Thucydides

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away. [Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]

— Horace

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises…

— Carl Jung

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

— Salvador Dali

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

— Hippocrates

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

— Bill Vaughan

Anna despises two classes of people: first, those who own their own homes and have cars and families, and second, everybody else. Constantly she…

— Elfriede Jelinek