Quotes About Those Who Despise Others

#1. Path of knight-errantry, and in pursuit of that calling I despise wealth, but not honour. I

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#2. Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#3. 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

#4. God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.

Georges Bernanos

#5. I can't afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications.

Joseph Conrad

#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. 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

#8. We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

Saint Ignatius

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

David Mitchell

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Her eyes are different. Wary, guarded, tinged with that human emotion I despise the most: regret.

Karen Marie Moning

#17. Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

George Santayana

#18. The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

Simon Schama

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. It is hypocrisy alone that leads men to be careless about themselves, [240] and haughtily to despise others.

John Calvin

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. 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

#27. All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.

Cleopatra

#28. I hate, loathe, and despise Christmas. It's a time when single people have to take cover or get out of town.

Kristin Hunter

#29. Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.

Mignon McLaughlin

#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

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

Andre Malraux

#32. Let fools the studious despise,
There's nothing lost by being wise.

Jean De La Fontaine