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Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region. — Edith Wharton

I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics. — Claude Monet

I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others. — Eve Ensler

People grow up loving the Yankees and will tell you, and so many people despise the Yankees, and they come from all over the United States. — Curtis Granderson

I hate, loathe, and despise Christmas. It's a time when single people have to take cover or get out of town. — Kristin Hunter

Can't really despise people you don't know. — Richard D. James

Her eyes are different. Wary, guarded, tinged with that human emotion I despise the most: regret. — Karen Marie Moning

I abhor men who cheat on their wives and despise women who sleep with married men. — Lisa Lim

[Boenhoeffer] had an extraordinarily even temperament, capable of ignoring anger, anxiety and discouragement. He seemed unable to despise anyone. — Eric Metaxas

I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion. — Justin Broadrick

I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes. — Edmund Spenser

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look. — Diana Wynne Jones

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 — Stephenie Meyer

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Never despise meger beginings! — Janette Oke

That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true. — Anne Bronte

The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down. — P. J. O'Rourke

Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

I hate charts. I just despise 'em. — Rush Limbaugh

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium. — Alan Moore

I don't despise people. — Will.i.am

People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer. — Merlin Mann

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood. — Anais Nin

They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with. — Mary Wollstonecraft

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise. — Don Herold

Here, brother, contempt is no use, even if he does despise Grushenka. He may despise her, but he still can't tear himself away from her. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most — David Mitchell

Do not love these gardens if you despise the dirt. — Melissa Jennings

However steep or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to higher levels! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are anguished with your failures, you despise and accuse those very adversities and held them responsible for your debacle. — Girdhar Joshi

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga. — Emma Donoghue

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. — Khalil Gibran

Sweat and blood and health and youth go into every cabbage. Did you know that, Julie? One doesn't despise them as food, knowing that. — Edna Ferber

Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don't despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end. — Sanjo Jendayi

There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves. — Arundhati Roy

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong. — Virgil

It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them — Lionel Shriver

Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised. — Marcus Aurelius

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. — Alvin Toffler

They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool. — John Lennon

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him. — Samuel Johnson

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance. — Chanakya

He might despise her, but the woman whom he had once loved should be kept from shame; and — Elizabeth Gaskell

Whoever despises another human being will never be able to make anything of him. Nothing of what we despise in another is itself foreign to us. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

He knew what he was. He knew what he was capable of. He also knew that if he broke her, he'd despise himself for all eternity. — Nalini Singh

Delicious it was, the hatred between us, or so I thought. Such unfamiliar excitement, to have him there to ridicule and despise. — Anne Rice

When doubt speaks, despise him.
When fear speaks, defy him.
When failure speaks, deride him.
When confusion speaks, disregard him. — Matshona Dhliwayo

To be an achiever doesn't mean to achieve only big things. Every small achievement counts big time. Never despise small beginnings. — Euginia Herlihy

There are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other. — Doris Lessing

I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should. — Charles Dickens

(Romanticism is not a quality I despise, but it is inconvenient in a butler.) — Elizabeth Peters

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections. — Saint Ignatius

Acheron: Yeah well, I don't like talking about myself and I despise personal questions.
Tory: Fine. All I want is that brain of yours for a few — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful. — Norman Hartnell

Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance. — Anthony Liccione

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying. — Iggy Pop

ever since he discovered that all his millions could not bring him back his wife, he has learned to despise money. — Stefan Zweig

I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 1:7 NLT — Eddie Johnson

Ammu quickly learned to recognize and despise the ugly face of sympathy. They ... gloated. She fought off the urge to slap them. — Arundhati Roy

What ambiguity there is in exalted things. We despise them a little. — Don DeLillo

Do you know how precious you are, how pure, how perfect? Everything you despise of yourself is only shadow. — Mark Landau

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky

Do not look so happy. I tell you ahead of time. All my students despise me. — Jandy Nelson

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Despise The Free Lunch — Robert Greene

I so despise people who keep dogs, they are cowards that havent got the curridge to bite themselfs — August Strindberg

I'm in this business because I despise honest labor. — Marty Robbins

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little". — Dale Carnegie

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?"
"No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself. — W. Somerset Maugham

I despise shopping and department stores. — Bethenny Frankel

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

[I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary. — George Sand

What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish? — Thomas Gray

Always I seem doomed to protect those I most despise, Entreri whispered — R.A. Salvatore

I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time. — Will Oldham

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. — Cleopatra

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another. — Marcus Aurelius

Path of knight-errantry, and in pursuit of that calling I despise wealth, but not honour. I — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth. — Ted Nugent

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually? — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I despise that he knows it and I don't. Makes him the better man for her in this situation. I want to be the better man for her in every situation. — Karen Marie Moning

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it. — Thomas Carlyle

I'd felt like crying, but cry once and it's all over: if you cry, the reliable men will despise you, and then they will not be reliable any more. — Margaret Atwood

I despise the morning ... I am a creature of darkness, whose elements is night and shadow.I belong in the dark with the other sinful creatures. — Charlotte Featherstone

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now. — Lynne Truss

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool. — John Lennon

Do not despise anyone: an atom shadowing. — Pythagoras

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can't despise my whole life. — Tony Kushner

It is not that I despise men. If I did I should have no right, and no reason, to try to govern. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Let us spend our leisure with our books, which will take our minds off these troubles, and will teach us to despise what many people desire. — Poggio Bracciolini

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. — Linda Chavez

Real men despise battle, but will never run from it. — George Washington

To love one's neighbor and not to despise him is impossible. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament. — Christopher Lasch