Despise Quotes

• O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

  William Penn

  Wise, Wisdom, Understanding

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• For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

  Annie Besant

  Christian, Evil, Leader

  Annie Besant (2012). “Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History”, p.200, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

  Aleister Crowley

  Religious, Doors, People

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 3, 1969.

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• Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Women, Struggle, Aggravation

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.33, Hackett Publishing

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• Can't really despise people you don't know.

  Aphex Twin

  People, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Accomplishment, People, Surpassing

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• I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Rocks, People, Gutters

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• To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

  Fanny Burney

  May, Riches, Wealth

  Fanny Burney (1850). “Evelina: or, The history of a young lady's introduction to the world”, p.130

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• The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

  Ovid

  Believe, Mind, Scandal

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• Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hate, Hateful, Cunning

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• I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Humorous, People, Profound

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.85, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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• We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

  Mark Twain

  People, Religion, Sacred Things

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.544, eKitap Projesi

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• It is only the ignorant who despise education.

  Publilius Syrus

  Education, Teacher, Money

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 571, 1856.

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• Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

  Solomon

  Knowledge, Fool, Wise Counsel

  Proverbs 1:7, King James Version,

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• Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

  Publilius Syrus

  Success, Recovery, New Beginnings

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• Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

  Horace

  Courage, Ambition, Loss

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

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• Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Management, Bureaucrats

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• You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Kindness, Judging, Helpers

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.

  Cleopatra

  Terrible Events, Comfort, Seduction

  "Shakespeare and Dickens: The Dynamics of Influence". Book by Valerie Gager, Valerie L. Gager, Cambridge University Press, p. 266, 1996.

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• I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Opportunity, Half

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• A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

  Laozi

  Leadership, People, Good Man

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• My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Hate, Hatred, Siddhartha

  Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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• 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.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Lost Friendship, World

  'The Plain Speaker' (1826) 'On the Pleasure of Hating'

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• What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

  Frank Herbert

  Hate, Princess, Hatred

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.204, Penguin

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