Despised Quotes

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

I've always despised the hippies.

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

God is wanting you to give Him the despised, the humdrum things in your life - like feet - and let Him make them beautiful.

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

That danger which is despised arrives the soonest.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials from the divine person who sent them on such a message.

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.

Frost isn’t exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

The unconquerable pang of despised love.

Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.

Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.

[Margaret Thatcher] scorned and despised other women, and predicated her values entirely on the values of her father, a small town shopkeeper.

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.

Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.

Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.

Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

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.

O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.

Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.

Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.

I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"

Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.

I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.