A Quote by William Dean Howells

People naturally despise a dependant.

William Dean Howells

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William Dean Howells
American - Novelist
March 1, 1837 - May 11, 1920

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 despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

Mark Twain

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

Julie Burchill

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

Mencius

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Thucydides

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Thucydides

American people, what about the American people? I think the president delights in the fact that they have been roofied by technology and pop culture. They're not conscious to any expansion of power, which is why they're happy to exist in this dependant decline.