Despise Quotes

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.