Quotes with despise

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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Horace Walpole To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
    Letter to Sir Horace Mann (27-05-1776)
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Quentin Crisp To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Quentin Crisp To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
    The Naked Civil Servant (1968) Ch. 9
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Henry Wheeler Shaw We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
    Henry Wheeler Shaw
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Oswald Chambers We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. ''In your patience possess your souls.''
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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