Despicable Quotes

• The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Looks, World, Virtuous

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• There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

  James A. Baldwin

  Pain, People, Way

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• Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Sarcastic, Hurt, Kindness

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• Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

  William E. Gladstone

  Ignorance, May, Remember

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• It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

  Denis Diderot

  Human Nature, Conventions, Should

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Political, Honor, Progress

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• I believe in helping our fellow man in need. I believe that reaching into your own pockets to help someone in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into somebody else's pockets to help your fellow man in need is despicable. And, or those of us who are Christians, I'm very sure that when God gave Moses the commandment Thou Shalt Not Steal, he did not mean ...unless you get a majority vote in Congress.

  Walter E. Williams

  Christian, Believe, Mean

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• I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Money, Business, Men

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Persons, Stills, Humans

  "I'm a castrated bull". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. April 05, 2012.

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• Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.

  Steve Martin

  Art, Entertainment, Disgusting

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• Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Ambition, Use, Merit

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• Money will make you more of what you already are. If you're not a nice person, money's going to make you a despicable individual. If you're a good person, money's going to make you a better person.

  Bob Proctor

  Money, Nice, Good Person

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 16, 2017

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• Failure is no shame - but not making the attempt is despicable.

  Paula Gosling

  Effort, Shame

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• A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

  Albert Pike

  War, Principles, Rehabilitation

  Albert Pike (1950). “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry”, p.58, Library of Alexandria

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• The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Believe, Men

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• Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies

  Francois Fenelon

  Use, Quacks, Talkers

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• People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.

  Democritus

  Children, Hypocrisy, People

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• Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless they can shut themselves up in a coterie and forget the cold outer world. The man of science has no need of a coterie, since he is thought well of by everybody except his colleagues. The artist, on the contrary, is in the painful situation of having to choose between being despised and being despicable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Artist, Self

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company

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• He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

  Publilius Syrus

  Doe, Sage, Profit

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 629, 1856.

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• There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection.

  David Hume

  Beautiful, Science, Fabric

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.675, Delphi Classics

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• This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste and disposal of food, which is even more despicable when all over the world, unfortunately, many individuals and families are suffering from hunger and malnutrition.

  Pope Francis

  Food, Suffering, Culture

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• And now let us consider and marvel that ever this great and blessed God should be so much concerned, as you have heard He is in all His providences, about such vile, despicable worms as we are! He does not need us, but is perfectly blessed and happy in Himself without us. We can add nothing to Him.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Blessed, Doe

  "The Mystery of Providence".

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• I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence, look again at the extra employment a new country added to our dominions gives.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Country, Race, Giving

  "Confession of Faith". Essay by Cecil Rhodes, 1877.

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• But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all.

  Susan Sontag

  Forgiving, Care, Culture

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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