Despised Quotes

I have been despised by better men than you.

Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.

The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.

Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him.

Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.

The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.

I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.

He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.

You are still despised and mocked, A man too weak and infirm to be God, A God too much man to call forth adoration.

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

The very highest is barely known. Then comes that which people know and love, Then that which is feared, Then that which is despised. Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.

Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

Trump is especially reviled and despised because he's really a man. He's really a man. He's really what's wrong with men, and they just can't stand this.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

Here's what I'm curious about. For the president of Mexico, this man, Donald Trump, is, it's probably not an understatement to say, despised by many Mexicans.

Donald Trump is so universally despised, because he so often says the wrong thing and has absolutely no moral code outside of just wanting to be powerful and influential.

Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.