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Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There is something absolute in us which despises qualification.
— Virginia Woolf
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.
— Barbra Streisand
Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.
— Mignon McLaughlin
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
— Marcus Aurelius
Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Miss Eliza Bennet," said Miss Bingley, "despises cards. She is a great reader, and has no pleasure in anything else.
— Jane Austen
If you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.
— Adrienne Rich
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
— William Hazlitt
He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding (Proverbs 15:32).
— Tedd Tripp
If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
— William Cowper
One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
— Ambrose Bierce
An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
— Chief Joseph
If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
— William Hazlitt
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
— James Baldwin
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
— Guy De Maupassant
Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
— D.H. Lawrence
A true party-man hates and despises candour.
— Adam Smith
A wise traveller never despises his own country.
— Carlo Goldoni
His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
— Samuel Johnson
He who despises most things will be a law-giver among them.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One of the really American things about Hal, probably, is the way he despises what it is he's really lonely for
— David Foster Wallace
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
— Michel De Montaigne
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
— David Mallet
The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.
— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.[Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.] — Horace
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
There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.
— Charles Caleb Colton
He who despises simplicity will shout for a simple lifebuoy when drowning in the ocean of complexity!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.
— Randolph Bourne
He who despises life is his life's master.
— Pierre Corneille
I can but pray the Father o' a' to haud his e'e upon her, an' his airms aboot her, an' keep aff the hardenin' o' the hert 'at despises coonsel!
— George MacDonald
He who despises a poor man's wisdom has turned away great riches.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
That is the nature of women," said Don Quixote. "They reject the man who loves them and love the man who despises them.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
