1.
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
Hedy Lamarr
2.
Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
Alexander Pushkin
3.
A wise traveller never despises his own country.
Carlo Goldoni
4.
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
Boris Pasternak
5.
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
Marcus Aurelius
6.
Fear is such a weak emotion that’s why I despise it
Lupe Fiasco
8.
Never fear another challenger, no matter how large; Never despise another challenger, no matter how small.
Morihei Ueshiba
9.
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.
Barbra Streisand
10.
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
Thucydides
11.
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
Mencius
12.
All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.
Amin Maalouf
13.
If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.
Saint Patrick
14.
Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
Barry Lopez
15.
To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Quentin Crisp
16.
There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.
Charlize Theron
18.
Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.
Humphrey Bogart
19.
Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
Jonathan Swift
20.
Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing.
Pythagoras
21.
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
Alexis de Tocqueville
22.
Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.
Pythagoras
23.
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 Rukeyser
24.
To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.
R. C. Sproul
25.
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 Keyes
26.
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
27.
Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
Leigh Bardugo
28.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Charles Caleb Colton
29.
I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.
Elizabeth Gaskell
30.
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
Claude Monet
31.
Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.
Marcus Aurelius
33.
You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.
Aesop
34.
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
Confucius
35.
Authority is never without hate.
Euripides
36.
Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.
Mahatma Gandhi
38.
Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
Thomas More
39.
I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.
Suzanne Collins
40.
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
George Santayana
41.
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
42.
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
Alvin Toffler
44.
I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.
Anais Nin
45.
There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
Albert Camus
47.
One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.
Susan Sontag
48.
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
Christopher Lasch
49.
Can't really despise people you don't know.
Aphex Twin
50.
I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.
Friedrich Nietzsche