Quotes About Despicable

#1. I go back to family: 'Ice Age' was about disparate characters rejected by their own kind. They come together to save the child. 'Despicable Me' is about redefining what a family could be. It has a visual distinction and an experimental quality.

Chris Meledandri

#2. I'm sure the Industry has been bad to you. I'm sure you have every right to hate it. Keep an open mind however. So long as you do, you might find it's not quite as despicable as you imagine.

Rose Foster

#3. No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though they're despicable and what they're doing isn't right you still care for their fate.

Andy Serkis

#4. Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence.

Karl Marx

#5. There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program

Edward Yourdon

#6. 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

#7. Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Jane Austen

#8. Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

William E. Gladstone

#9. Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good.

William George Jordan

#10. I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't succeded in splicing surveillance equiptment to plants? So get rid of all the flowers. Rocks, too. I don't trust them. Sullen little blebers.

Eoin Colfer

#11. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.

George W. Bush

#12. It was defiantly the most gorgeous voice i'd ever heard. It belonged to The rudest Most Despicable Boy I've Ever Met.

Diane Messidoro

#13. The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.

Catherine Crier

#14. It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

Marion Milner

#15. I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time.

Steven Bauer

#16. There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.

James Baldwin

#17. The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#18. War is honorable
In those who do their native rights maintain;
In those whose swords an iron barrier are
Between the lawless spoiler and the weak;
But is, in those who draw th' offensive blade
For added power or gain, sordid and despicable
As meanest office of the worldly churl.

Joanna Baillie

#19. An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.

Frank Van Dun

#20. Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

Charles Studd

#21. What has happened at Guantanamo Bay ... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

Jimmy Carter

#22. Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing?
Have you declared yourself enlightened?
Damn your weak philosophies; a pox and a pestilence your despicable sloth and arrogance.

Peter J. Carroll

#23. Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#24. The despicable crone known as Mombi stands accused of high witchery, gross dishonesty, untold crimes against monkeys, outrageous trespassing, and general unpleasantness. Also, she is extremely unattractive. Miss Amy, do you speak for the witch?

Danielle Paige

#25. Have you ever seen that movie "Despicable me," the first one? Gru, the main character has become a criminal, and in a simple way, the creators of the movie suggest that he became that way because he was neglected by his mother.

Rita Chester

#26. But the world of Despicable Me is such a cartoony world. It is much more Looney Tunes than I would say the Pixar world or those movies. We can get away with a little more, although I know some people responded negatively to the Iron Maiden beat in the first movie where it looks like Edith.

Cinco Paul

#27. To set a precedent, I guess. So that if in the future she ever fell from grace, it would be understood that presidents - even the most despicable - get special treatment.

Suzanne Collins

#28. There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection.

David Hume

#29. The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

Alexander Hamilton

#30. Our extroverted culture makes introverts feel despicable for wanting to be alone. Like thieves snatching something that doesn't belong to them, we have to "steal" a moment of solitude. If only introverts could see that we have a right to our alone time. We have a right to enjoy it too. Think

Michaela Chung

#31. I'm looking forward to playing some really despicable characters at some point in my career so I can branch out and stretch those acting muscles. But I wouldn't want to do that on a regular basis.

Zachary Levi

#32. Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate.

Reince Priebus

#33. The Nature of men and women -their essential nature- is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

W. Somerset Maugham

#34. I wanted to value life, all life, regardless of how despicable some of it could be.

Jodi Meadows

#35. I don't understand how an adult can write those last two sentences and not want to kill themselves for being so despicable.

Harvey Pekar

#36. Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.

Orson Scott Card

#37. I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

Frank McCourt

#38. One could push a pack of truths together to make one despicable falsehood.

Courtney Milan

#39. I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais! And there were times when I knew how you felt, and it was hell to know it, my little one. Lolita girl, brave Dolly Schiller.

Vladimir Nabokov

#40. There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

William Hazlitt

#41. Tricking someone into a relationship is the earmark of a despicable person

Addison Moore

#42. How can the most cruel and despicable create something as breathtaking beautiful as this?

D.S. Wrights

#43. Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealousy.

Daphne Du Maurier

#44. Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#45. If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in despicable poverty, had assurance that he should tomorrow arise a prince: would they be afraid to go to bed ... ?

Richard Baxter

#46. It's a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money.

Frank Zappa

#47. Fear feeds the worst in all of us. It drives the most despicable of our natures to the surface.

Joe Hart

#48. Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

Francois Fenelon

#49. There was nothing about Kavinsky that wasn't despicable.

Maggie Stiefvater

#50. Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.

Alan Dershowitz

#51. I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living

Reinaldo Arenas

#52. Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island.

Brigitte Bardot

#53. Money will make you more of what you already are. If you're not a nice person, money's going to make you a despicable individual. If you're a good person, money's going to make you a better person.

Bob Proctor

#54. She [Ayn Rand] had to declare that....altruism was despicable, that only self-interest is good and noble. (About Ayn Rand)

William F. Buckley Jr.

#55. It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

Alice Walker

#56. I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.

Steve Martin

#57. I do not think that there is so much wretchedness in us as vanity; we are not so much wicked as daft; we are not so much full of evil as of inanity; we are not so much pitiful as despicable.

Michel De Montaigne

#58. She strove for poised composure, despite feeling like a powerless pawn in a despicable game of human chess, played for the amusement of those who enjoyed tragic endings at the expense of someone else's happiness - no - their very existence.

Collette Cameron

#59. Violet stayed still as a statue. She hadn't been listening to the last speech of Count Olaf's, knowing it would be full of the usual self-congratulatory nonsense and despicable insults.

Lemony Snicket

#60. Oppression doesn't make people noble. Give any of us a little comfort, and we'll kill to keep it. The despised become despicable.

Victor LaValle

#61. Potemkin only deceived his empress;
how much more despicable to deceive oneself.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#62. Despicable. Just slutty. You're a man-whore of the highest order. I hope you catch the demonic version of the clap." ~ Jenna

Jessie Lane

#63. Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable.

Anton Chekhov

#64. I tell you this: it is the most despicable thing of all to drag animals into a war.

Erich Maria Remarque

#65. Jen's emotions, strong but invisible within an infallible Miran facade, raged with contempt. He'd met the man responsible for such despicable exploitation of his brother's life onboard the Aquarius. He didn't like him then.

He hated him now.

Marcha A. Fox

#66. A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet lives without God in the world, is certainly the most despicable and the most miserable animal under the sun.

Matthew Henry

#67. A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

Karl Kraus

#68. There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.

Walter E. Williams

#69. I willingly took John Lennon's life. What I did was despicable.

Mark David Chapman

#70. We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.

Ugo Betti

#71. The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.

Thomas Carlyle

#72. Human nature is both predictable and mysterious; prone to great and sudden advances, yet still mired in despicable self-interest.

Neal Shusterman

#73. By vice, dissipation, and extravagance, [the nobility] have been driven to the most despicable, and often the most atrocious actions, for which persons in a humble line would be exemplarily punished, while men and women of rank claim the privilege of being infamous.

Eliza Parsons

#74. I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am
invincible.

Mahatma Gandhi

#75. I saw these men and knew what they wanted, that this was vice, and despicable, and the price of it was Hell.

Anne Rice

#76. I'm sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did. I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium.

John F. Kerry

#77. Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive to prove us unfit for freedom; having denounced us as indolent, it is not strange that they should cripple our enterprises.

Frederick Douglass

#78. Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#79. But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all.

Susan Sontag

#80. Well, what can I say, it's a base world,' he finally muttered. 'But that's no reason for us all to become despicable.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#81. There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.

Neil Peart

#82. Would you like some wine, or would you prefer to yell at me for a little longer?" asked the Beast pleasantly. "I could leave, if you prefer, but I generally hold that those who leave the room when you wish to yell at them are among the most despicable of beings.

T. Kingfisher

#83. Probably, violent things I've done when I was younger, was probably the most despicable thing that I've ever done.

ASAP Rocky

#84. The moral man is necessarily narrow in that he knows no other enemy than the 'immoral' man. 'He who is not moral is immoral!' and accordingly reprobate, despicable, etc. Therefore, the moral man can never comprehend the egoist.

Max Stirner

#85. This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste and disposal of food, which is even more despicable when all over the world, unfortunately, many individuals and families are suffering from hunger and malnutrition.

Pope Francis

#86. Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#87. I whisper to the sea three times. Once I ask that Corr will be meek and good, so they'll have no reason to use the bells and magic that he so despises.
But twice I whisper for him to be despicable, so that they'll beg for me to come back.

Maggie Stiefvater

#88. It's despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds.

Lara Biyuts

#89. Failure is no shame - but not making the attempt is despicable.

Paula Gosling

#90. Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

William Wycherley

#91. Has anyone ever told you, you are the most despicable, judgmental, self-righteous, obnoxious fuckwit that ever existed?

Samantha Young

#92. Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#93. Despicable creatures, vultures: without a doubt the most disgusting birds ever. I suppose they served their purpose, but did they have to be so greasy and ugly? Couldn't we have cute fuzzy rabbits that cleaned up roadkill instead?

Rick Riordan

#94. Let us consider and marvel that ever this great and blessed God should be so much concerned, as you have heard He is in all His providences, about such vile, despicable worms as we are! He does not need us, but is perfectly blessed and happy in Himself without us. We can add nothing to Him.

John Flavel

#95. Prince's words had not been meant as a warning. Rather, he had been playing. He had been pretending. He had been speaking for speaking's sake. Could there be a more despicable use for words?

Andre Alexis

#96. I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

Len Wein

#97. Abu, torturing guys and breaking them down is not something I look forward to, although your case is a little different. I think you're such a despicable fuck that I might actually enjoy our little session. (Mitch Rapp to Abu Haggani)

Vince Flynn

#98. Squeeze 7cc's so I could see the seven seas,
And CC all my friends so they could see what I was seeing ...
But what they saw was a despicable human being;
So, I guess they just wasn't seeing what I was seeing.

Pharoahe Monch

#99. How horrible it was to be despised. To feel yourself to be despicable.

Liane Moriarty

#100. He is the sort of despicable person who has no understanding of how despicable he is, and my badgering him with insults won't change that; nothing will. Rather than angry, I just feel heavy, useless.

Veronica Roth