Quotes about despise, page 13
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
quote by Thucydides
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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
quote by Russell Green
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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
George Bernard Shaw in Pygmalion (1916)
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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
quote by George Bernard Shaw
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
quote by Kahlil Gibran
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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
quote by Russell Green
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It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
quote by Jeanne-Marie Roland
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.
quote by Martin H. Fischer
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Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
quote by Allan Massie
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