Despising Quotes

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man. — Mahatma Gandhi

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself. — Criss Jami

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves. — William Hazlitt

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