Despise Quotes - Page 29

• The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

  Honore de Balzac

  Hate, Men, Hatred

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• Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.

  Jeff B. Davis

  Book, Liberty, World

  Twitter post from Jul 20, 2011

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• The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

  Ben Jonson

  Hate, Men, Evil

  Ben Jonson, Barry Cornwall (1838). “The Works of B. J. with a Memoir of His Life and Writings, by Barry Cornwall [i.e. B. W. Procter].”, p.741

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• In a way, the great thing about Batman is that there are so many of him that you can usually find one you like. Often, it's the one that was current when you began following the character. But though you like the Batman of one decade, you may well despise (and not recognize the validity of) the Batman of some other decade. If you've been a fan of the character for forty years, you probably hate half of them.

  Mark Evanier

  Hate, Character, Years

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• The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. . . . There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.

  Margot Asquith

  Kings, Ideas, People

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• Do not despise or hate your neighbor because he has been a success; take care of your own case.

  William Tecumseh Vernon

  Life, Hate, Hatred

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• He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and concerts and gallery openings ... He grew to despise the rigid formality of dating, missed the easy familiarity of simply being with someone, sharing friendly silences and unforced laughter.

  Ken Grimwood

  Laughter, Play, Dating

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• There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations....What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Ignorance, Army, Suffering

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• When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

  John Calvin

  Heaven, Earth, May

  "Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life". Book by John Calvin, 1550.

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• Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hate, Hatred, Pity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.200

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• The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Hate, Real

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• It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.

  E. W. Howe

  Hate, Real, Two

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• Whoever does not fight the one who despises him, neither in word not in thought, has received true knowledge and demonstrates a firm trust in God.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.

  Ben Jonson

  Dream, Hate, Hatred

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works of Ben Jonson ...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and Biographical Memoir”, p.47

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• I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Hate, Integrity

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.6

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• People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

  Mike Tyson

  Mistake, People, Boxing

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• We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

  William Hazlitt

  Sports, Hate, Trifles

  William Hazlitt, Herschel Moreland Sikes, William Hallam Bonner, Gerald Lahey (1979). “The Letters of William Hazlitt”, p.231, Springer

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• Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hate, Age, Despised

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.272

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• If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

  George Santayana

  Hate, Opportunity, Men

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.90, MIT Press

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• Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Mean, Differences

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.21, Tuttle Publishing

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• Do not despise any man, however poor he may be; but behave with full respect and kindness to every well-intentioned man, especially to the poor, as to our members worthy of compassion - or, rather, to members of Christ - otherwise you will cruelly wound your soul.

  John of Kronstadt

  Kindness, Men, Compassion

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• Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Heart

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• If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

  Virgil

  Race, Demise, Arms

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• All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it.

  George Orwell

  Race, Racism, People

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

  John Dryden

  Two, Faces, Admiration

  'Essay on the Dramatic Poetry of the Last Age' (1672)

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