
There is no rest for the humble except in
despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism. —
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like
despising the color pink. —
Barbara Kingsolver

Possessing Christ and
despising the church is an intolerable contradiction. We cannot have Christ without embracing the church. —
R.C. Sproul

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for
despising it. —
W. Somerset Maugham

Perhaps you should spend less time
despising the game and more time building the patients necessary to win. —
Renee Ahdieh

Communism is the end of the economy as a separate and privileged field on which everything else depends while
despising and fearing it. —
Gilles Dauve

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-
despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us. —
Tryon Edwards

The noblest people are those
despising wealth , learning , pleasure and life ; esteeming above them poverty , ignorance , hardship and death . —
Diogenes

Why am I
despising you when I'm about to change your life? —
John Le Carre
Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having. —
Paulo Coelho

The tea party venerates the Constitution while
despising the political system it has produced. —
Gideon Rachman

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look
despising. —
Aldous Huxley

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of
despising glory. —
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and
despising them. —
Maria Montessori

The sort of man who admires Italian art while
despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad. —
Gilbert K. Chesterton