Despise Quotations | Page 3

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

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

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.

However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.

Who is this Pat Condell? He's my friend. He likes his beer; He adores England and respects North America. He can be crude or extremely elegant, and best of all, he despises dogma and the leeches who spout it and the fools who follow the likes of Jones, Falwell, Kennedy, Swaggart, Copeland, Bakker and Hinn.

We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking.