quotes about Despise
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Genius can never despise labour.
-- Abel StevensSource : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”
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There are more things to admire in men then to despise.
-- Albert Camus -
Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a'  admirer que de choses a'  me priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise.
-- Albert Camus -
Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
-- Alvin Toffler -
All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.
-- Amin MaaloufSource : Amin Maalouf (1994). “The Rock of Tanios”, George Braziller
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
-- Andre Malraux -
Can't really despise people you don't know.
-- Aphex TwinSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.
-- Arundhati Roy -
Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
-- Barry Lopez -
I despise shopping and department stores.
-- Bethenny Frankel -
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A wise traveller never despises his own country.
-- Carlo Goldoni -
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
-- Cesare Pavese -
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
-- Charles Caleb Colton -
That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
-- Charlie Chaplin -
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There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.
-- Charlize TheronSource : FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Nov 25, 2013
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I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
-- Christopher Lasch -
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
-- Claude Monet -
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
-- Confucius -
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Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius
-- Conn Iggulden -
Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian
-- D.E. Stevenson -
So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.
-- Daniel KeyesSource : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.
-- Diane AbbottSource : "Q&A: Diane Abbott" by Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.
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Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
-- Dmitri Shostakovich -
I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
-- Edward Abbey -
I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.
-- Emily Bronte -
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?
-- Gene Wolfe -
The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.
-- George Mason -
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
-- George Santayana -
God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.
-- Georges Bernanos -
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
-- Guy de Maupassant -
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
-- Hedy Lamarr -
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
-- HippocratesSource : Entering the world (M. Odent)
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He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away. [Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]
-- Horace -
Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.
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I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely pissed off that I'm circumcised.
-- Howard Stern -
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Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.
-- Humphrey Bogart -
Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
-- Jonathan Swift -
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We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
-- Josh Billings -
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 HammonSource : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
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Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude....
-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould -
Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
-- Leigh Bardugo -
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He will have true glory who despises it.
-- LivySource : "History of Rome" by Livy, Book XXII, sec. 39,
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Fear is such a weak emotion that’s why I despise it
-- Lupe FiascoSource : Song: Words I Never Said, Album: Lasers, 2011
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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu -
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
-- Mencius -
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Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.
-- Muriel RukeyserSource : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.138, Northwestern University Press
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Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.
-- Plutarch -
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
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Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.
-- Pythagoras -
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
-- Quentin Crisp -
To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.
-- R. C. Sproul -
I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.
-- Robert Walpole -
A classical education enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green -
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If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.
-- Saint Patrick -
Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
-- Sidney Poitier -
I despise this weakness in myself--this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action...
-- Stef PenneySource : Stef Penney (2008). “The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster
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One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.
-- Susan Sontag -
I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.
-- Suzanne Collins -
Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
-- Thomas More -
My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.
-- Tony Kushner -
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
-- Vera Farmiga -
Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.
-- W. Somerset Maugham -
I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.
-- Will Oldham -
We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
-- William Hazlitt -
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By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
-- William Hazlitt -
I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.
-- Norman Hartnell -
However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.
-- Periander -