Despise Quotes
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There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
Albert Camus -
Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
George Washington
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When I first came to this land because I did not go to such meetings as those were, it was presently reported that I did not allow of such meetings but held them unlawful and therefore in that regard they said I was proud and did despise all ordinances. Upon that a friend came unto me and told me of it and I to prevent such aspersions took it up, but it was in practice before I came. Therefore I was not the first.
Anna Hutchison -
To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.
R. C. Sproul -
People naturally despise a dependant.
William Dean Howells -
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
Bill Vaughan -
Long live all us crazy soldiers Who were born under calico skies May we never be called to handle All the weapons of war we despise
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.
Periander
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If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
William Cowper -
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 -
My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.
Tony Kushner -
I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. Eminem's new song about his kid - isn't it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don't like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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
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Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.
Bill Vaughan -
Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
Thomas More -
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
Lao Tzu -
My personal experience has only discovered two classes of people in China; Cynics who despise love and cowards who are afraid of it.
Xu Zhimo -
Can't really despise people you don't know.
Aphex Twin -
That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.
Paul Strand -
It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.
Albert Einstein -
People generally despise where they flatter.
Aristotle -
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
Charles Dickens