Despise Quotes - Page 19

• Genius can never despise labour.

  Abel Stevens

  Genius, Labour

  Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”

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• Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

  Samuel Richardson

  Strong, Mind, Enough

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

  Thucydides

  Men, Court, Admire

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• There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.

  Madame de Stael

  Class, Two, People

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• I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way.

  Maurice Sendak

  Hate, School, Way

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• Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast.

  Jeremy Collier

  Fuel, Sparks, Poverty

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.40

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• Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.

  John Ruskin

  Spiritual, Animal, Men

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.98, University of Virginia Press

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• there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Two, Humanity

  Doris Lessing (2010). “Stories”, p.471, Vintage

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• Friedrich Nietzsche predicted that secular people, losing touch with transcendence, would eventually lose a reference point from which to look down and judge themselves. In the end they would lose even the capacity to despise themselves. Thus, because of the 'death of God', they would confuse heaven with happiness, and happiness with health.

  Os Guinness

  People, Judging, Heaven

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• This guy [Steven Lerner] is a pure anti-capitalist. He despises America. He is on a personal crusade.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Guy, Crusades

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I despise in others my own characteristics.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Characteristics, My Own

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

  Publilius Syrus

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• I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.

  Oliver Stone

  Men

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• If you despise the mountains you have climbed, you are not welcomed by the mountains you have not yet climbed!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mountain, Ifs

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• This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.

  Marni Jackson

  Children, Giving, Cooking

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• However steep or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to higher levels!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  May, Levels, Stairs

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• Dwarfs have also the right to despise the giants, because giants too can be defeated!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Giants, Defeated, Dwarfs

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• Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent; applaud the peaceful; despise the brute force!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Warrior, Peaceful, Culture

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• People naturally despise a dependant.

  William Dean Howells

  People

  William Dean Howells (2015). “A Traveler from Altruria”, p.14, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer.

  Merlin Mann

  Stupid, People, Suffering

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• This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake -- the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism -- how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Mistake, Fall

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• I can by no means approve the scurrility and contempt with which the Romanists have often been treated. I dare not rail at, or despise, any man: much less those who profess to believe in the same Master. But I pity them much; having the same assurance, that Jesus is the Christ, and that no Romanist can expect to be saved, according to the terms of his covenant.

  John Wesley

  Jesus, Believe, Mean

  John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “The works of the late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: from the latest London edition with the last corrections of the author, comprehending also numerous translations, notes, and an original preface, etc”, p.151

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• The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

  Jack London

  Hate, Loneliness, Men

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.570, Delphi Classics

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• I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself,
  yet cannot overcome — and so I live. Would I had never lived!

  Lord Byron

  Overcoming, Hateful, Instinct

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• The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

  Francis Bacon

  Sacrifice, Support, Understanding

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