Quotes About Despise

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.

Oh child that didst despise thy life so much When it seemed only thine to keep or lose, How the fine ear felt fall the first low word "Value life, and preserve life for My sake!"

Little children were trained not to do "just what they liked" but…but what?…Of course! What others liked. And which others? Parents, teachers, supervisors, policemen, judges, officials, kings, dictators. All authorities. When you are trained to despise "just what you like" then, of course, you become a much more obedient servant of others—a good slave. When you learn not to do "just what you like" then the System loves you.

This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

I will despise whatever lies in the domain of Fortune, but if a choice is offered, I will choose the better half.

The bad scorn the good . . . and the crooked despise the straight." ~Greville

I was in disbelief that I'd just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise me. Bella Swan

glory follows virtue as its shadow; and deserting those who seek it, it seeks those who despise it.

That's the way a prejudice works; you come to despise the people you've taken advantage of so your conscience doesn't hurt.

I have always suspected everyone who likes me of having poor judgment. I despise them for being so easily taken in.

But, in yourself, you said that you would write about these people ... and for once it would be written by some one who knew what he was writing of. But he would never do it, because each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

They need you. They wouldn't feel superior without someone to despise. They're inadequate.

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

The anchovy which is found in the sea at Athens, men despise on account of its abundance and say that it is a poor man's fish; but in other cities, they prize it above everything, even where it is far inferior to the Attic anchovy.

The people who know Ted Cruz best despise him, including his former college roommate.

I cannot live and at the same time despise my life. I must find myself a life, a new life, even if all of life consists only of an endless search for life.

my stomach aches a new. blasted inconvenience. What do young men have to mark their entry into adulthood? Trousers, that's what. Fine, new trousers. I despise absolutely everyone just now.

Truth and goodness do not depend on me, Bell. I am too weak. I am as poor a thing as General Blessington. Prepare to despise both of us.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

I despise - I hate - I'm terrified of karaoke, and I wish I wasn't because everybody I know who's awesome loves it.

I have always despised the capitalist greed and imperialist hubris that have motivated it.