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  • Whoever does not fight the one who despises him, neither in word not in thought, has received true knowledge and demonstrates a firm trust in God.

  • There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

    People   Trying   Despise  
    FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Nov 25, 2013
  • For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

    Christian   Evil   Leader  
    Annie Besant (2012). “Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History”, p.200, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Sounded like girls. Mixed feelings on that score. He didn't despise them with the same passion he used to. In fact, Benny suspected that there would come a time in the not-too-distant future when he might develop a mysterious interest in them.

    Girl   Passion   Feelings  
    Eoin Colfer (2012). “Benny and Omar”, p.23, The O'Brien Press
  • If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

    Mother   Home   Boys  
    Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.40, Diversion Books
  • Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?

    Eye   Heart   Sky  
    1825 'To a Skylark', l.1-4 (published 1827).
  • I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

  • If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

    Men   Islam   Assuming  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.96, Friederich Nietzsche
  • We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of such Earths inhabited and adorned as Well as our own.

    Men   World   Earth  
    Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.13
  • There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

    "Ted Nugent Calls Himself 'A Black Jew at Nazi-Klan Rally,' Stands by Obama Beheading Statement" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 18, 2012.
  • The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

    George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.432, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

    Country   Past   America  
    "David Frum’s Why Romney Lost eBook Is Spot-On" by Dan McDermott, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.
  • Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to learn how to think. I welcome a fair and square, open and above-board fight on any subject, including this, but I despise a man who sneaks around under a cloak or cover of any society or clique to strike his blows.

    Fighting   Blow   College  
  • From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

  • I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

    Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”
  • Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.

    Fashion   Morning   Doors  
    Plutarch (2011). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.528, Bantam
  • I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him.

    Mistake   Taken   Men  
  • It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

    Homer (1811). “The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope”, p.274
  • Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in the world Jewish and Gentile...I do not believe that this primal difference between Gentile and Jew is reconcilable...The difference between us is abysmal...You might say: 'Well, let us exist side by side and tolerate each other. We will not attack your morality, nor you ours.' But the misfortune is that the two are not merely different; they are opposed in mortal enmity. No man can accept both, or, accepting either, do otherwise than despise the other.

    Lying   Believe   Men  
  • I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

    Funny   Hate   Integrity  
    James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.6
  • Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

    God   Lying   Men  
  • I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

  • The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

    Children   Hate   Men  
    'Pygmalion' (1916) preface
  • Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself.

    Doe   Fellowship   Poor  
    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 247), 1895.
  • If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of education science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing - not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied.

    Knowledge   Science   Men  
  • It was beautiful and rare, and you have every right to despise me." She stood pressed to the wall, not moving. "When you came in, I thought 'Send her away.' But I knew that if you went away, I'd run after you. I thought 'I won't say a word.' But I knew that you'd know it before you left. I love you. I know you'd think kindlier of me if I said that I hate you.

  • Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

    Strong   Race   White  
    James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.80, Courier Corporation
  • Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.

    Liars   Saint   Riches  
  • I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. Eminem's new song about his kid - isn't it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don't like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff

    Song   Dog   Character  
  • Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

    Carl Gustav Jung (1976). “The Collected works”
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