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It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.
— John Owen
Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?
— Scott Westerfeld
How short a period often reverses the character of our sentiments, rendering that which yesterday we despised, today desirable.
— Ann Radcliffe
People's clothes ought to be buried with them ... They oughtn't to be left behind to be despised.
— Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
My genes tie me to those that despised me.
— Brother Ali
Brainless and vicious youth whom I had sometimes met in society, and had never thought of hating because I despised him so absolutely.
— Charlotte Bronte
That danger which is despised arrives the soonest.
— Decimus Laberius
Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.
— Michel De Montaigne
A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.
— Alphonsus Liguori
Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.
— E. M. Forster
Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.
— Thomas A Kempis
He bowed over her hand and kissed the knuckles. He'd never despised a glove more in his life.
— Kristi Ann Hunter
He leapfrogged from the status of despised Galilean
— R.C. Sproul
He was incomplete, broken; and despised it.
— A.G. Howard
An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.
— Publilius Syrus
I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.
— Dorothy Dunnett
German soldiers look as if they despised you, but French soldiers as if they despised you and themselves even more that you.
— G.K. Chesterton
I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
— Saint Patrick
He was like one people turned away from; He was despised, and we didn't value Him. Isaiah 53:3
— Beth Moore
She despised the sadness that hung inside her like old lace.
— Sonya Hartnett
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
— Alice Miller
Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.
— Kahlil Gibran
According to the maxims of universal toleration, the Romans protected a superstition which they despised.
— Edward Gibbon
She dreamed of a world where books did not rot or give way to green blot, where words and ideas were not things you were despised for treasuring.
— Frances Hardinge
Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.
— Julian Barnes
It is an honor to be despised by fools.
— Shiho Inada
He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.
— R. Scott Bakker
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
Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised ...
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.
— Sri Aurobindo
Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
My family despised Faberge objects as emblems of grotesque garishness.
— Vladimir Nabokov
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
— Charles Eastman
A poor generous man is greatly praised.A stingy rich man is greatly despised. — Matshona Dhliwayo
It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage ... is so rare and despised.
— Albert Schweitzer
A world she despised, could not comprehend, nor defend herself against. a world that did not want her
— Harper Lee
You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised,
— Cormac McCarthy
I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.
— William Shakespeare
He who helped thee when thou wert in trouble ought not afterwards to be despised by thee.
— Jacob Grimm
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
Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.
— Nachman Of Breslov
Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It was one thing to go into battle with friends, and another to perish alone and despised.
— George R R Martin
Harry S Truman despised settled conventions.
— David Pietrusza
What woman has ever stopped by a want of information? She felt. And despised him for not acting in accordance with her feelings.
— John Le Carre
I despised him as one fit only for amusement, a man with whom I associated for that sole purpose.
— Osamu Dazai
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
— George Savile
Like most womanisers, he affected to like women, and yet he despised and hated them all. And
— Marion Chesney
You shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: you must be proud of your foes. Thus have I already taught.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Strict walking is much despised in these days, but rest assured, dear reader, it is both the safest and the happiest.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.
— William Steig
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
— Teresa Of Avila
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.
— Edmund Burke
Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised. Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.
— Henry David Thoreau
The unconquerable pang of despised love.
— William Wordsworth
Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.
— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellersare despised. — Tess Gerritsen
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fuck the meek. The despised will inherit the earth!
— Victor LaValle
Weakness is stereotypically expected in women but also despised.
— Mercedes M. Yardley
I have been despised by better men than you.
— George R R Martin
Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace.
— Mary Balogh
I clung to my ferocious habits, yet half despised them; I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.
— Johnny Depp
Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.
— Jeffrey Bernard
Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.
— Cressida Cowell
The country she had taken for granted as her own, where she had been born, whose language alone she spoke, had rejected her and despised her.
— Pearl S. Buck
The man she despised had his job back. Her job. Damn it to hell. She'd never be able to live with him now.
— Abby Niles
If we happen to be praised on account of qualities which we formerly despised, our estimation of those qualities immediately rises.
— Giacomo Leopardi
She'd always despised the whole other woman thing, but here she was, entertaining the possibility.
— Diana Stevan
No putt is too short to be despised.
— Bobby Jones
It seemed that it was not only live magicians which Mr. Norrell despised. He had taken the measure of all the dead ones too and found them wanting.
— Susanna Clarke
How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
— Emily Bronte
Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.
— Paul Muldoon
Whoever that hermit was, he obviously despised his fellow man, and that meant he was OK in Eliot's book.
— Lev Grossman
Make it so the poor are no longer despised and thrown away. Look at them standing about - like wildflowers, which have nowhere else to grow.
— Philip Yancey
