Despise Quotes
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People generally despise where they flatter.
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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.
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Don't despise the small beginnings because great things are just around the corner.
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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
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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.
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
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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.
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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.
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Soul mates are muses. The people in your life you despise, disrespect and desire the most.
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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.
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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.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
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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.
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Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.
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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
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So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
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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.
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What does Nietzsche say of fighting men? 'You must have as enemies only those whom you hate, but not those whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy, and then the enemy's success is your success also.
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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.
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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.
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It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
