Top 100 Quotes About Despises
#2. The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue.
Ben Shapiro
#3. Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.
Plutarch
#5. Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#6. One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another's ambitiousness.
Susan Sontag
#7. Cynophilist: paradoxical being that often despises man and adores the dog, apparently, mainly because of the unconditional love that the latter has for the first.
Luigina Sgarro
#8. Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. The man incapable of appreciating her, she despises; and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#9. Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.
Julie Burchill
#10. In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.
Robin Williams
#12. 'The Sea Wolf' is the story of a man who believes only in brute force. He is so firm in belief in his own ideas that he despises all who disagree with him. He preaches the doctrine of intolerance. He flaunts the notion that democracy is anything but weakness.
Ida Lupino
#14. A wise traveller never despises his own country.
Carlo Goldoni
#15. If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?
Josh Billings
#16. One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd.
Carl Jung
#17. For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
Thucydides
#18. The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'
Ayelet Waldman
#19. That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.
John Calvin
#20. He who despises a poor man's wisdom has turned away great riches.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#21. His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
Samuel Johnson
#23. He will have true glory who despises it.
Livy
#24. On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#25. He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away.
[Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]
Horace
#26. If anyone insists on his own goodness and despises others . . . let him look into himself when this petition confronts him. He will find he is no better than others and that in the presence of God everyone must duck his head and come into the joy of forgiveness only through the low door of humility.
Timothy Keller
#27. A man who despises himself so much that the only way he can alleviate his feelings of inferiority is by stomping down his wife's personality with a daily stream of nasty jibes.
Liane Moriarty
#28. I believe the Gods hate to be bored, so I do my best to amuse them. That way they smile on me. Your God,' Merlin said sourly, 'despises amusement, demanding grovelling worship instead. He must be a very sorry creature.
Bernard Cornwell
#29. All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#30. The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it.
Mark R. Levin
#31. A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.
A.E. Samaan
#32. All human beings are vines. But especially the idealist. He is a vine, and he needs to clutch and climb. And he despises the man who is a mere potato, or turnip, or lump of wood.
D.H. Lawrence
#33. Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
D.H. Lawrence
#34. The thing is, I can't love her, not in the real world. Because this would be degrading to me. To love someone who despises you, and she just might. You should see her eyes on me sometimes. Plus she's not even a mother anymore, she's just a planet with a face. Da at least has hands.
Victor Lodato
#35. I agree that biphobia is real, but I think it's absolutely worth considering that someone who "despises" having sex with her husband - and men in general - may not be interested in men sexually.
Mallory Ortberg
#36. Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.
Barbra Streisand
#37. The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears the conductor; the staff on one prompt side won't talk to the staff on the opposite prompt side, the dancers are all crazed from hunger in any case ...
Terry Pratchett
#38. He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#39. Every exercise of power incorporates a faint, almost imperceptible, element of contempt for those over whom the power is exercised. One can only dominate another human soul if one knows, understands, and with the utmost tact despises the person one is subjugating.
Sandor Marai
#40. He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding (Proverbs 15:32).
Tedd Tripp
#41. The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#42. It is very easy to criticize others but far more difficult to put one's own principles into practice, and it is when one forgets this truth, lauds oneself to the skies, treats everyone else as worthless, and generally despises others, that one's own character is clearly revealed.
Murasaki Shikibu
#43. Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?
E. Haldeman-Julius
#44. He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#45. I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather gone beyond bravery. It is a kind of warfare where people are fighting enemies they never see, killing people of whom they know nothing.
Robertson Davies
#46. Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#47. That is the nature of women," said Don Quixote. "They reject the man who loves them and love the man who despises them.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#48. 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.
Jim Bishop
#50. There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.
Charles Caleb Colton
#51. An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
Chief Joseph
#52. 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
#53. 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.
William Congreve
#54. Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.
Robert Burns
#55. If you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.
Adrienne Rich
#56. Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
Michel De Montaigne
#57. A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
James Baldwin
#58. Miss Eliza Bennet," said Miss Bingley, "despises cards. She is a great reader, and has no pleasure in anything else.
Jane Austen
#59. One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
Ambrose Bierce
#60. A fool despises his father's instruction,
But he who receives correction is prudent.
King Solomon
#61. The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything which contributes to the triumph of the revolution. Immoral and criminal is everything that stands in its way.
Sergey Nechayev
#62. To be conformed to Jesus, we must first begin to think as Jesus did. We need the "mind of Christ." We need to value the things He values and despise the things He despises. We need to have the same priorities He has. We need to consider weighty the things He considers weighty.
R.C. Sproul
#63. If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#64. Only a cynic can create horror - for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them.
Thomas Ligotti
#65. 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.
Charles Caleb Colton
#67. A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.
[Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]
Horace
#68. 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.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#69. He who despises simplicity will shout for a simple lifebuoy when drowning in the ocean of complexity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#70. Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.
Idries Shah
#72. A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius
#73. A society that hates laws that guard the soul despises not so much the laws as much as it despises the very thought of a soul. Those who belong to such a society consider the flesh the totality of their being.
Ravi Zacharias
#74. I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
David Mallet
#75. I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
Martin Luther
#76. The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him ... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#77. Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.
Carl Jung
#78. 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.
George Washington
#79. Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach.
Woody Hayes
#80. If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
William Cowper
#81. One of the really American things about Hal, probably, is the way he despises what it is he's really lonely for
David Foster Wallace
#82. If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
Marcus Aurelius
#83. Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
Jean De La Bruyere
#85. Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
Hippocrates
#86. The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.
Randolph Bourne
#87. I've trusted human women before. Twice. The first died, and the second paid a terrible price and despises me. Never, ever again.
Alyssa Day
#88. An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
Salvador Dali
#89. I'll tell the others I lost you." His voice gruff, and in it I can hear all the emotion he despises, all the emotion he's trying so hard to contain. "And it won't be a lie.
Virginia Boecker
#90. 13 Whoever j despises k the word brings destruction on himself, but he who reveres the commandment will be l rewarded.
Anonymous
#91. 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
#92. 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.
Paul Harris
#93. The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
Ovid
#94. Death despises bartering. Yet this king of Death was the greatest barterer of us all. He bartered with our lives, dreams, hopes, and prayers - he used them to control us. And he would continue to so long as we allowed him. But today, if only for me, he would stop. He wouldn't win.
Abigail Baker
#95. Anna despises two classes of people: first, those who own their own homes and have cars and families, and second, everybody else. Constantly she is on the verge of exploding. With rage. A pool of pure red. The pool is filled with speechlessness that talks away at her nonstop.
Elfriede Jelinek
#96. A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion for life but controlled by his will, well-developed conscience, loves beauty in art and nature, despises inferior morality, respects himself and others.
Thomas Huxley
#97. Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.
Bill Vaughan
#99. The man who despises himself tries to gain self-esteem from sexual adventures - which can't be done, because sex is not the cause, but an effect and an expression of a man's sense of his own value.
Ayn Rand
#100. Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.
Friedrich Nietzsche
