(53 quotes found)
“Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.”
Camille Paglia
“That´s the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.”
Charlie Chaplin
“A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled”
James Arthur Baldwin
“Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.”
Michel de Montaigne
“To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.”
Quentin Crisp
“Do not despise an insignificant enemy or a slight wound”
German Proverb
“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”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.”
William Blake
“Despise evil and un godliness but not men of un godliness or evil.”
William Saroyan
