Despise Quotes

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

A wise traveller never despises his own country.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

Fear is such a weak emotion that’s why I despise it

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.

Never fear another challenger, no matter how large; Never despise another challenger, no matter how small.

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

Never despise what you don't understand.

Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.

Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

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.

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.

To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.

So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.

Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

Never despise meager beginnings.

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.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Authority is never without hate.

Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.

We do not despise all those who have vices,
but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

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

Can't really despise people you don't know.

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

Only the elites despise earning money.