Despise Quotes

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.

I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

Can't really despise people you don't know.

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.