Quotes about Despise

Thus Esau despised his birthright." In disposing of it he felt a sense of relief. Now his way was unobstructed; he could do as he liked. For this wild pleasure, miscalled freedom, how many are still selling their birthright to an inheritance.

He was a choice spirit, and were he living today would agree with us. I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God.

Regret your own actions, if you like that kind of wallowing in self-pity, but never, never despise. Never presume yours is a better morality.

glory follows virtue as its shadow; and deserting those who seek it, it seeks those who despise it.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

It is hypocrisy alone that leads men to be careless about themselves, and haughtily to despise others.

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.

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

the people who find fault with society are too apt to regard it as an end and not a means, just as the people who despise money speak as if its only use were to be kept in bags and gloated over? Isn't it fairer to look at them both as opportunities, which may be used either stupidly or intelligently, according to the capacity of the user?

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

to lift a man by education from one social stratum to another is to expose him to a terrible temptation—the temptation to despise his own people.

Where Christ's laws are written in the heart, there all other good laws are best obeyed. None despise man's law but those that despise Christ's first.