Top 100 Quotes About Despised
#2. O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?
William Shakespeare
#3. I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.
Nina Bawden
#4. Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it
unable quite to let each other go.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#5. It was too small a step,
somehow, too puny a thing to settle for after having lost so
much. So the courtship continued, and the more Tom came to
despise his job, the more stubbornly he defended his own inertia;
and the more inert he became, the more he despised himself.
Paul Auster
#6. To the Greeks [the Macedonians] were uncouth, semi-civilized barbarians. The Macedonians for their part despised the Greeks as effete, wishy-washy Greeklings. Both regarded the Thracians as scarcely capable of walking on their hind legs.
Nicholas Sekunda
#7. Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#8. The respectable, like the despised, are always at the mercy of circumstances; the influences of environment and the weight of tradition are vastly important to them, for these hide their inward poverty. The
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#9. The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then a producer - because he's too valuable to simply be a writer.
John Rhys-Davies
#10. At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.
Henry Flynt
#11. A hero worn out by his struggle, one who had sacrificed his youth - that was how he might present himself, not without effect. And it was true, in a way. He was physically brave, he had ideals, he was born a peasant and knew what it was to be despised. And she too, just now, had been despising him.
Alice Munro
#12. Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Alice Miller
#13. It seemed that it was not only live magicians which Mr. Norrell despised. He had taken the measure of all the dead ones too and found them wanting.
Susanna Clarke
#14. But in order to really see it, the truth, I have to admit how much I'm hated. And who wants to think they're worthy of that much anger? To be despised so much... to have someone wish you never existed. ~ Emma
Rebecca Donovan
#15. For something to occur, something needed to be lived in, approached, repelled by, consumed. The present, to exist, must be remembered, despised, and feared.
Philip Schultz
#16. People all over the world come to realize that Hitler was right, since Jews are bloodsuckers ... interested in destroying the whole world which has expelled them and despised them for centuries ... and burnt them in Hitler's crematoria ... one million ... six millions. Would that he had finished it!
Anis Mansour
#17. You are still despised and mocked,
A man too weak and infirm to be God,
A God too much man to call forth adoration.
Khalil
#18. Bond loathed and despised tea, that flat, soft, time-wasting opium of the masses,
Ian Fleming
#19. He bowed over her hand and kissed the knuckles. He'd never despised a glove more in his life.
Kristi Ann Hunter
#20. The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.
Marshall McLuhan
#21. How horrible it was to be despised. To feel yourself to be despicable.
Liane Moriarty
#22. There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!
Charles Spurgeon
#23. Tonight the song you always despised strides from the jukebox full-bodied and you hear the lyrics for the first time, understand the lyrics for the first time after all these years. This new you with an older soul. Now it's your favorite. All this time singing the wrong words.
Colson Whitehead
#24. Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.
Ernest Hemingway,
#25. At thirteen it was evident that Bleu and Azul were going to be different from their father. They respected him as their father, but they despised the way Marcos treated me.
Ivy Symone
#26. The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.
A. Philip Randolph
#27. [T]he witch appears to have alternated between being a terrifying enemy who could bring ruin and death and a pathetic figure to be despised and insulted.
Robin Briggs
#28. Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
Anonymous
#29. It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species ... even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.
Bertrand Russell
#30. Psalm 106:24, 25: 'Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word; but murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord. Therefore he lifted up his hand against them to overthrow them in the wilderness.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#31. He who helped thee when thou wert in trouble ought not afterwards to be despised by thee.
Jacob Grimm
#32. In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.
Samuel Johnson
#33. My life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.
Dorothy Allison
#34. It is not in the nature of man to bear the cross, to love the cross, to keep under the body and to bring it into subjection, to fly from honours, to bear reproaches meekly, to despise self and desire to be despised, to bear all adversities and losses, and to desire no prosperity in this world.
Thomas A Kempis
#35. A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.
George Muller
#36. Do you realize why is it I'm so driven to operate within the Establishment? It's vengeance. 'Hope I die before I get old' is something I still have to live with, but not for the reason many people think. I have to be very, very vigilant not to become one of those people I despised.
Pete Townshend
#37. But I've never despised myself so much as I did that day - she was so small and - so fierce, so beautiful, it was like breaking a hawk's wings, stopping up a clear spring with bricks - digging up roses to make space to park your tank. Pointless and ugly.
Elizabeth Wein
#38. Just because an old fountain gives no more water, it cannot be despised because with the water it provided once, many trees grew up, many thirsty has quenched their thirsts!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. I despised him as one fit only for amusement, a man with whom I associated for that sole purpose.
Osamu Dazai
#40. An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.
Publilius Syrus
#41. If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
Thomas Paine
#42. But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. (Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw)
Emily Bronte
#43. Getting the audience to cry for the Terminator at the end of T2, for me that was the whole purpose of making that film. If you can get the audience to feel emotion for a character that in the previous film you despised utterly and were terrified by, then that's a cinematic arc.
James Cameron
#44. Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
Jonathan Swift
#45. I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman.
Margaret Atwood
#46. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
Emily Bronte
#47. It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#49. The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
Charles Eastman
#50. The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.
John Calvin
#51. German soldiers look as if they despised you, but French soldiers as if they despised you and themselves even more that you.
G.K. Chesterton
#52. My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
Jesse Jackson
#53. I am despised by an army of undiscerning academic highbrows, and ridiculed by semi-educated and vengeful "China-experts" whose era of translating Chinese into Western categories has now come to an end. The public is ready for non-European vocabularies.
Thorsten J. Pattberg
#54. Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
William Jennings Bryan
#55. Her love for him closed within her like a fist. Nervous, bruised. She despised it. Wasn't it the love of a beaten animal, slinking back to its master? Yet here was the truth: she missed her father.
Marie Rutkoski
#56. And that's the point; not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their week ones.
Jill Lepore
#57. Fear, tenderness - these emotions were so despised that they could be admitted into consciousness only at the cost of redefining what it meant to be a man.
Pat Barker
#58. Instead of taking the camp's difficulties as a test of their inner strength, they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and to live in the past. Life for such people became meaningless.
Viktor E. Frankl
#59. I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death.
Tanith Lee
#60. None of us wanted to look like that, ever. For a moment, even though we knew what was being done to her, we despised her. Crybaby. Crybaby. Crybaby. We meant it, which is the bad part. I used to think well of myself. I didn't then.
Margaret Atwood
#61. John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.
Lester Bangs
#62. If Time have any wrinkle graven there; If any, be a satire to decay, And make time's spoils despised every where. Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life, So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife.
William Shakespeare
#63. Fuck the meek. The despised will inherit the earth!
Victor LaValle
#65. Oh, that I had a thousand lives and a thousand bodies! All of them should be devoted to no other employment but to preach Christ to these degraded, despised, yet beloved mortals.
Robert Moffat
#66. It was one thing to go into battle with friends, and another to perish alone and despised.
George R R Martin
#67. The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.
Laozi
#68. Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
Aldous Huxley
#69. I was just running away from the person I'd been for the past five years. I wasn't particularly pleased with the person I was now, but I had hated and despised the other one, and I was glad to be rid of her face.
Ian Fleming
#70. He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind; to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything.
Graham Greene
#71. He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you
Wilhelm Grimm
#72. I think it's very important for the male homosexual to recognize that he is a sexual target for other men, and that is why he is despised, and why he is called a faggot. He is called a faggot because other males need him.
James Baldwin
#73. Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#74. I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.
Claire Tomalin
#75. Taylor despised workers' free association - their attempts to establish horizontal bonds - because it created too many
Stanley McChrystal
#76. She'd always despised the whole other woman thing, but here she was, entertaining the possibility.
Diana Stevan
#77. Like most womanisers, he affected to like women, and yet he despised and hated them all. And
Marion Chesney
#78. I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. And they have all turned to enemies in a few hours: they have, I'm positive; the people here. How dreary to meet death, surrounded by their cold faces!
Emily Bronte
#79. God sleepeth not, and He will visit His judgement upon you. Better were it for you to have a millstone hung about your neck and sink into the sea than to be hated and despised of all men.
Helen Keller
#80. A pearl, even if it is cast down into the mud, is not despised. And if one covers it with balsam, it does not
become more valuable. But it is always valuable to its owner.
It is the same with the Sons of God: wherever They may be, They are still of value to Their Father.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
#81. What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.
Mark Twain
#82. Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#83. He despised violence. He believed he was smarter than that, better than that. A civilized man. After seeing Martin Pink in the flesh again - he knew just how thin the veneer of civilization was.
Josh Lanyon
#84. Everyone talks about justice, but there can be no justice where there is no truth, and these are times when truth is seldom recognized and often despised.
Dean Koontz
#85. It never occurred to me that she might travel from one man to the next to avoid being abandoned. Or to avoid being worshiped like a goddess, a worship she both relished and despised.
Alan Lightman
#86. I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
Saint Patrick
#87. One year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now
Mary Ann Shaffer
#88. That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.
Phyllis Bottome
#90. Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight,
Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
Past reason hated
William Shakespeare
#91. Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#92. I yawned awake ready to blow stuff up like a 90s action-star. I'd become what I despised, a misguided schmuck following the status-quo for the sole purpose of fitting in. Whatever... gunrunners, terrorists, bankers, dictators, goons; we all have it coming.
Bruce Crown
#94. Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?
Anne Bronte
#95. Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.
Samuel Johnson
#96. In any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has withstood and seldom will withstand.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#98. the fact that the church draws so few of those that are despised, of those whom Jesus drew and to whom most expressly he came, gives ground for question as to how far the church is like her Lord.
George MacDonald
#99. Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace.
Mary Balogh
#100. He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.
Ayn Rand
