Quotes of: Despise Keyword

The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.

P. J. O'Rourke

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Sallust

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

Saint Patrick

If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.

Ben Brantley

The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

Evelyn Waugh

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

Fanny Burney

Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline." Proverbs 1:7 NLT

Eddie Johnson

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Jerome K. Jerome

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

Max Nordau

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

William Hazlitt

I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.

Emma Donoghue

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.

Scott Stapp

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

Camille Paglia

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Thucydides

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

Andre Malraux

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

Andrew Sullivan

I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.

Adam Savage

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

Allan Massie