Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cesare Pavese

Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.

Edmund White

When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed.

Helen Oyeyemi

I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.

Thucydides

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Agatha Christie

Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

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

Edward Young

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise

Charles Spurgeon

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.

Charles Spurgeon

There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

Steven Heighton

I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is not the statesman, the warrior, or the monarch that survives, but the despised poet, whom they may have fed with their crumbs, and to whom they owe that they are now or have a name

Graydon Carter

I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Well, said she, after a pause, ""if you despise my love, I must see what can be done with fear. You smile, but the day will come when you will come screaming to me for pardon.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.

Curtis Granderson

People grow up loving the Yankees and will tell you, and so many people despise the Yankees, and they come from all over the United States.

Georges Bernanos

God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

Samuel Butler

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.

William Saroyan

Despise evil and un godliness but not men of un godliness or evil.

Joel Kinnaman

The north of Sweden is very socialist and poor. They feel left out and despise Stockholm in many ways because Stockholm has become new liberals and much more Americanized.

If the world despises you because you do not follow its ways, pay no heed to it. But be sure your way is right.

Andre Ward

I never want to despise small beginnings. I?m grateful for where we?re at right now.

Janeane Garofalo

I despise in others my own characteristics.

Humphrey Bogart

Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.

I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I despise everything that the Nazis stood for, or Hitler stood for.

Ludwig Beethoven

I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy

For a governor who signed the despised legislative pay raise and saw his plan to use gambling money to lower property taxes go down in flames, Ed Rendell ought to be called Teflon Ed.

Elizabeth Gaskell

I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

Publilius Syrus

When you can despise death, you have conquered all fears.