Despises Quotes

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

He will have true glory who despises it.

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.