Despise Quotes
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Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself.
George C. Lorimer
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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.
Francis Bacon
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
Emily Bronte
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By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
William Hazlitt
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Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.
Lord Byron
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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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Soul mates are muses. The people in your life you despise, disrespect and desire the most.
Coco J. Ginger
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Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!
Thomas Carlyle
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The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I do utterly despise dailiness as it stands. I can't abide what the world has become, the frozen-ness of our product this evil thing that we kiss the ass of every hour. I want a dailiness that is free and beautiful.
Alice Notley
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Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears and prejudices never appear as such because they determine our vision of people we despise, we fear, and against whom we discriminate.
Rene Girard
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After all you've put me through, you would think I despise you, but in the end I want to thank you because you made me that much stronger.
Christina Aguilera
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
Seneca the Younger
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What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?" "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come." "It is as it should be," she murmured. "Angel, I am almost glad—yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!" She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved. "I am ready," she said quietly.
Thomas Hardy
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It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
Homer
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I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
Wole Soyinka
