Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cesare Pavese

Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.

John Rhys-Davies

The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then a producer - because he's too valuable to simply be a writer.

For a governor who signed the despised legislative pay raise and saw his plan to use gambling money to lower property taxes go down in flames, Ed Rendell ought to be called Teflon Ed.

Curtis Granderson

People grow up loving the Yankees and will tell you, and so many people despise the Yankees, and they come from all over the United States.

Samuel Butler

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.

Edward Young

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise

Tony Kushner

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.

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

Georges Bernanos

God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

Steven Heighton

I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

Janeane Garofalo

I despise in others my own characteristics.

I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I despise everything that the Nazis stood for, or Hitler stood for.

Ludwig Beethoven

I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy

Humphrey Bogart

Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.

Publilius Syrus

When you can despise death, you have conquered all fears.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is not the statesman, the warrior, or the monarch that survives, but the despised poet, whom they may have fed with their crumbs, and to whom they owe that they are now or have a name

Edmund White

When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.

Helen Oyeyemi

I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.

Thucydides

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

Well, said she, after a pause, ""if you despise my love, I must see what can be done with fear. You smile, but the day will come when you will come screaming to me for pardon.

Agatha Christie

Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

Graydon Carter

I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Andre Ward

I never want to despise small beginnings. I?m grateful for where we?re at right now.

If the world despises you because you do not follow its ways, pay no heed to it. But be sure your way is right.

William Saroyan

Despise evil and un godliness but not men of un godliness or evil.

Joel Kinnaman

The north of Sweden is very socialist and poor. They feel left out and despise Stockholm in many ways because Stockholm has become new liberals and much more Americanized.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed.

Elizabeth Gaskell

I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.