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• I guess there's nothing I don't like about Merlin, in this presentation. I love everything, even the things I find despicable and abhorrent in Merlin. They're actually a joy to ride on the tailcoats of.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Joy, Abhorrent, Presentation

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• My girlfriend is despicable. I just found out she flirted with my brother, during my mom's funeral, while I was asleep.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Mom, Girlfriend, Brother

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2010

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• There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program

  Edward Yourdon

  Fields, Program, Programming

  Edward Yourdon (1975). “Techniques of program structure and design”, Prentice Hall

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• I'm looking forward to playing some really despicable characters at some point in my career so I can branch out and stretch those acting muscles. But I wouldn't want to do that on a regular basis.

  Zachary Levi

  Character, Careers, Acting

  "5 Questions with Alexis Bledel & Zachary Levi". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. April 18, 2013.

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• Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

  William Hazlitt

  Poverty, Aspect

  William Hazlitt, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles Lamb (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life”, p.242

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• Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House  has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin. And that's despicable.

  Colin Powell

  Real, Party, Character

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• Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mean, Goal, Achieve

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam. But I must relate the horrors as I recall them, in the hope that some force for mankind might be moved to relieve forever the unfortunate creatures who are still imprisoned in the back wards of decaying institutions.

  Frances Farmer

  Believe, Evil, Forever

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Passion, Littles, Magnificent

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3797, Delphi Classics

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• To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

  Virginia Woolf

  Happiness, Men, World

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.44, Virginia Woolf

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• I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did. I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium...

  John F. Kerry

  War, Tired, White

  "Kerry’s Mangled Statement a Distraction —updated" by Taylor Marsh, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2006.

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• There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring virgins into distress, and to ruin innocence. When men of rank and figure pass away their lives in these criminal pursuits and practices, they ought to consider that they render themselves more vile and despicable than any innocent man can be, whatever low station his fortune or birth have placed him in.

  Joseph Addison

  Adventure, Men, Knights

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer”, p.138

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• Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

  Jane Austen

  Bears, Affinity, Cunning

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.36, Lulu.com

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

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Made, Despise, Impressed

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.

  Frank Van Dun

  Doe, Half, Want

  "Dyslexic Anarchists of the World–Untie1" by Stephan Kinsella, www.lewrockwell.com. January 20, 2004.

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• There is a gambling element to being somebody who is going to take on the job of constantly trying to represent and prop up people who might be somewhat shady. That notion is probably part of how they got the rap. But, I have to find the balance of being colorful, being at times despicable, and also being somebody who does believe in something.

  Greg Kinnear

  Jobs, Rap, Believe

  "Greg Kinnear Talks RAKE, His Approach to the Edgy Role, Similarity to the Australian Series, and More". Interview, collider.com. January 23, 2014.

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• Probably, violent things I've done when I was younger, was probably the most despicable thing that I've ever done.

  ASAP Rocky

  Done, Violent

  "Interview: A$AP Rocky On His Debut Album 'Long.live.A$AP' And Upcoming NZ Show". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Squeeze 7cc's so I could see the seven seas,
  And CC all my friends so they could see what I was seeing...
  But what they saw was a despicable human being;
  So, I guess they just wasn't seeing what I was seeing.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Rap, Sea, Hip Hop

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• Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent repetition, his occasional rage sinks by decay of strength into peevishness; that peevishness, for want of novelty and variety, becomes habitual; the world falls off from around him, and he is left, as Homer expresses it, to devour his own heart in solitude and contempt.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fall, Heart, Men

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• A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fear, Book, Writing

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.13

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• A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dog, Stupid, Boys

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• The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sloth, Laziness, Virtuous

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• The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.

  Emily Post

  Lying, Dishonesty, Found

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• It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

  Marion Milner

  Trying, Goes On, Weak

  Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.19, Taylor & Francis

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• If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in despicable poverty, had assurance that he should tomorrow arise a prince: would they be afraid to go to bed....?

  Richard Baxter

  Death, Christian, Morning

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