- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despises Quotes
On the sting of contempt, in others and in yourself.
These quotes look at despising in its rawest forms — hating to lose so much it shapes a whole coaching career, or feeling despised and treated with contempt by someone else. See also character quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats me with contempt, I can be as proud as any peacock.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Sea Wolf' is the story of a man who believes only in brute force. He is so firm in belief in his own ideas that he despises all who disagree with him. He preaches the doctrine of intolerance. He flaunts the notion that democracy is anything but weakness.
- Foolish
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- Nov 07, 2020
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
- Courted
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- Nov 07, 2020
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
- Coward
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- Nov 07, 2020
An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020