Top 337 Despised Quotes & Sayings

Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.

Dangers by being despised grow great.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.

It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

Frost isn’t exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.

I've always despised the hippies.

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

What you have despised in yourself as a thorn opens into a rose.

Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.

But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile. 3) Illogical persons are despised. Therefore, babies cannot manage crocodiles. And: 1) No interesting poems are unpopular among people of real taste. 2) No modern poetry is free from affectation. 3) All of your poems are on the subject of soap bubbles. 4) No affected poetry is popular among people of taste. 5) Only a modern poem would be on the subject of soap bubbles. Therefore, all your poems are uninteresting.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

The unconquerable pang of despised love.

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

I despised trying to lose weight, and I resented everyone that made me feel like I had to.

The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.

Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.

Malcolm Fraser, in the marrow of his bones, despised racism. He despised people who discriminated against other people because they were different and in particular because of the colour of their skin, and I don't think there has been a time in Australian politics where there has been more attention to the importance of that value.

There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!

These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

I have been despised by better men than you.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.

That danger which is despised arrives the soonest.

Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.

Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need.

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?

Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

No putt is too short to be despised.

It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.

I despised basketball for a long time.

G-Wiz has always kind of been on my top-five probably most-despised mascot list.

I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.

The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.