Quotes About Despised

A hero worn out by his struggle, one who had sacrificed his youth—that was how he might present himself, not without effect. And it was true, in a way. He was physically brave, he had ideals, he was born a peasant and knew what it was to be despised. And she too, just now, had been despising him.

He was one of those men loves to be despised. That treats loathing like gold, to be clawed for and hoarded up. He hadn't learned yet that hate's the one thing never runs out.

He had despised that Mary with her idiot smile, symbol of a story that meant nothing, servant of a God who no good to anyone.

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are.

where the teaching is corrupt or is despised, there is no religion approved by God.

But observe, that men then revolted from God, when, having   forsaken his word, they lent their ears to the falsehoods of Satan.   Hence we infer, that God will be seen and adored in his word; and,   therefore, that all reverence for him is shaken off when his word is   despised.

Assuredly, when the word of God is despised, all reverence for Him is gone. His majesty cannot be duly honoured among us, nor his worship maintained in its integrity, unless we hang as it were upon his lips.

I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.

He despised music and considered it solely as an intrusion! For that matter the whole Freud family was very unmusical.

Most people are enjoying their lives with lies, so a person who tries to rectify them by saying the truth is only often most despised.

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

Warning to the despised. – If you have unmistakably sunk in the estimation of men you should hold on like grim death to decorum in society with others: otherwise you will betray to them that you have sunk in your own estimation too. When a man is cynical in society it is a sign that he treats himself like a dog when he is alone.

Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman.

I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of course. Father had it, and then Richard. But money was imputed to me, the same way crimes are imputed to those who've simply been present at them.

They that have beauty, let them be thankful for it, and make a good use of it, like any other talent; they that have it not, let them console themselves, and do the best they can without it: certainly, though liable to be over-estimated, it is a gift of God, and not to be despised. 

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid. - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised. The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli PROLOGUE 16 June 1941 Union Station El Paso, Texas The killer's code name was HECKLE.

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised. The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli

Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor?

Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor? said Lydgate, moving to Mr. Farebrother's side, and looking rather absently at the insects ranged in fine gradation, with names subscribed in exquisite writing. The shortest way is to make your value felt, so that people must put up with you whether you flatter them or not.