Despise Quote by Publilius Syrus

“You Christians studied them,” Settembrini exclaimed, “studied the classical poets and philosophers until you broke out in a sweat, attempted to make their precious…

— Thomas Mann

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able…

— Samuel Johnson

Some bolder spirits, indeed, might be expected to despise the cautious moderation of these timid reasoners, and to pronounce decisively, that the Bible was…

— William Wilberforce

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

— Elbert Hubbard

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“You don’t know what it’s like to worry you’ll start to despise the people who help you, the ones you should love, because they’re…

— Tracy Guzeman

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.

— Tony Kushner

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

— Brian Eno

I despise a person of little mind - one might as well not have any.

— Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins

Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.

— P. J. O'Rourke

If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is…

— Dale Carnegie

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