A Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Being Despise Even Flattered Flattery Indeed Nevertheless Profess Some

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Charles Caleb Colton
English - Writer
1780 - 1832

Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.

Muriel Rukeyser

I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely pissed off that I'm circumcised.

Howard Stern

Is it your thought that I despise some of these, while I love the others? I tell you, I despise nothing. None of it is repulsive to Me. It is life, and life is the gift; the unspeakable treasure; the holy of holies.

Neale Donald Walsch

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

W. Somerset Maugham

A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.

Mencius

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.

Charles Caleb Colton

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

George Bernard Shaw

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

Bill Vaughan

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

Benjamin Franklin

To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.

R. C. Sproul

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

Charles Caleb Colton

Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself. He is my worst self realized.