Despise Quotes

He despises men with tenderness.

To know how to despise pleasure is itself a pleasure.

If what most men admire, they would despise, ‘Twould look as if mankind were growing wise.

It is easy to escape from business, if you will only despise the rewards of business.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them ’twill despise thee and increase them.

Despise not small things, either for evil or good, for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth. A spark is a little thing, yet it may kindle the world.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

A man seldom affects to despise the world unless the world is regardless of him.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

A woman’s counsel is not worth much, but he that despises it is no wiser than he should be.