Top 48 Despise Someone Quotes
#1. If you fall in love with someone, there's a good chance the person won't love you back. Hatred, though, is usually mutual. If you despise someone, it's pretty much a given they're also not your biggest fan.
Sylvain Neuvel
#2. Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.
Joan Baez
#3. The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.
Johnny Giles
#4. We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
Saint Ignatius
#5. 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.
Jupiter Hammon
#6. must have looked forsaken standing there because she clucked her tongue against the roof of her mouth and said, "Poor Miss Sarah." I did so despise the attachment of Poor to my name. Binah had been muttering Poor Miss Sarah like an incantation since I was four.
Sue Monk Kidd
#7. I can't afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications.
Joseph Conrad
#8. God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.
Georges Bernanos
#9. 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.
Thomas Huxley
#10. I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection ... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the pretense of sparing me a twinge or two.
Robert Browning
#11. To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
#12. Thus our arrogance grows as we seek to exalt ourselves above others, as if we were different from them. Truly, there's no one who does not flippantly and boldly disregard and despise others as inferiors. Yes,
John Calvin
#13. You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.
John C. Maxwell
#14. 11 s My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline or be weary of his reproof, 12 for the LORD reproves him whom he loves, as t a father the son in whom he delights.
Anonymous
#15. What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?
Justina Chen
#16. Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.
Alan Dershowitz
#17. My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can't despise my whole life.
Tony Kushner
#18. It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them
Lionel Shriver
#19. If you truly love someone, you will cherish what they despise most about themselves.
Deborah Harkness
#20. Don't you think it makes them stronger when you give them someone to despise?
Elizabeth Wein
#21. Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
Ann Landers
#22. The boys have to have a chance to be at peace, at rest, without someone listening, to favor or despise them depending on the way they talk act and think.
Orson Scott Card
#23. There is always someone judgin you, no matter how good a person you are. Hell you could be saint, and still there would be that one person who'll despise you.
E.L. Montes
#24. A person will buy something they really don't need off of a salesperson they really like before they buy something they desperately need off of someone they despise. ... Johnny Flora
Johnny Flora
#25. In hate feeling there is a more or less subtle estimation component.
You do not hate those who take advantage or prevails over someone who is incapable or weak (albeit temporarily), you can at most despise them.
Luigina Sgarro
#26. It's the masters who despise the slaves, and the slaves who hate the masters. I don't know who is which. Maybe it doesn't fit here. Maybe it does. I don't know
Ayn Rand
#27. Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
George Santayana
#29. The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
Andre Malraux
#30. There are others. There will be others. Other heroes, other heroines. Other prophecies to fulfill, other adversaries to despise. There will be stories told and forgotten, and reinvented anew until one day, perhaps, the oldest are remembered, and the beginning may end, and the ending begin.
Jacqueline Carey
#32. I hate, loathe, and despise Christmas. It's a time when single people have to take cover or get out of town.
Kristin Hunter
#33. All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
Cleopatra
#34. Here, brother, contempt is no use, even if he does despise Grushenka. He may despise her, but he still can't tear himself away from her.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#35. What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself;
Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.
Horace
#37. It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.
Hermann Hesse
#38. Your neighbors are not all sheep. Your political opponents are not all evil or fools. Try talking to those you despise. They are your fellow citizens. And together, we are not lesser than any "greatest generation.".
David Brin
#39. It is hypocrisy alone that leads men to be careless about themselves, [240] and haughtily to despise others.
John Calvin
#40. Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?
Orson Scott Card
#41. Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
John Calvin
#42. The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.
Simon Schama
#44. Her eyes are different. Wary, guarded, tinged with that human emotion I despise the most: regret.
Karen Marie Moning
#45. Middle-age should be shot. Things about it gall me. First, that those younger despise the thought of getting old, and, hence, me. Second, that those older despise the thought of me being younger, and, hence, me. So here I am, pressed from both sides, forced to wear blinders - FULL SPEED AHEAD!
Chila Woychik
#46. Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'
Janet Morris
#47. Why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most
David Mitchell
#48. 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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
