(53 quotes found)
“Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.”
Edward Young
“Where one despises, one cannot wage war. Where one commands, where one sees something beneath one, one ought not to wage war.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.”
Seneca
“If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; / What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? / Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? / If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; / Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; / (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) / If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; / If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; / If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: / Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.”
Bible
“This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.”
“Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them”
Benjamin Franklin
“Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.”
“If what appears little be universally despised, nothing greater can be attained; for all that is great was at first little, and rose to its present bulk by gradual accessions and accumulated labours”
Samuel Johnson
“I hate everything about politics. I despise tradition. I loathe two-facedness. Yet still, if need be, I will step to the plate, break the mold, and take my country where it needs to go. Not because of passion, or skill, but out of necessity. Out. Of. Necessity.”
Dedrick D. L. Pitter
