Despise Quotes - Page 28

• In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.

  Charles Portis

  Culture, Clubs, West

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• We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hate, Love One Another, Agree

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Self Hate, Teach

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.21

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• I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.

  Will Oldham

  People, Figures, Certain

  "Ode to joy" by Kitty Empire, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2007.

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• They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

  John Lennon

  Education, Clever, Hate

  "Working Class Hero" (song) (1970)

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• The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Church, Moments, Pulpit

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426”, p.1002, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Flirty, Flirting, Laughing

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.20

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• I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

  Zoe Saldana

  Responsibility, Lazy, Stories

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• Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Truth, People, Platitudes

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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• It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

  Jim Bishop

  Mother, Father, Insomnia

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• Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.

  Joan Baez

  Tattoo, Reality, Parent

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• ... faithfully and strenuously you should resist the heretics in defense of the only true and life-giving faith, which the Church has received - the apostles and imparted to her sons. For the Lord of all gave to His apostles the power of the Gospel, through whom also we have known the truth, that is, the doctrine of the Son of God: to whom also did the Lord declare: 'He who hears you, hears Me; and he who despises you, despises Me, and Him who sent Me' (Lk. 10:16).

  Pope Clement I

  Christian, Son, Giving

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• He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

  Daniel Defoe

  Wise, Men, Poverty

  Daniel Defoe (1840). “A System of Magic”, p.19

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• I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

  Wole Soyinka

  People, Everyday, Wake Up

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• I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

  Vera Farmiga

  Character, Want, Admire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I despise shows that present friendship where you're always there for each other and really strong because I don't know anyone like that. I mean, I've got great friends, but I can go months without seeing them because I think, 'I just can't deal with having to give you anything.

  Sharon Horgan

  Strong, Mean, Thinking

  "Sharon Horgan: 'I love making men cry'". Interview With Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2011.

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• You bring me to my knees, while I'm scratching out the eyes of a world I want to conquer, and deliver, and despise. And right while I am kneeling there, I suddenly begin to care. And understand that there could be a person that loves me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Honesty, Eye, World

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• First of all, Mets fans despise me.

  Adam Rubin

  Fans, Firsts, Mets

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• The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Clever, Hate, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.56, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hate, Love Is, Perfect

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1047, Delphi Classics

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• I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Three, Slave

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• To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hate, Lying, Love Is

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.111

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• The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.

  Seneca the Younger

  Art, Kings, Hate

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• All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Hate, Over You, Victory

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• Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hate, Enough, Conscience

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