“ We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. ”
- Henry Wheeler Shaw- Copy
- 359
“ Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization. ”
- Alexander Pushkin- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Fontenelle- Copy
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“ What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence. ”
- Joseph Brodsky- Copy
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“ Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself. ”
- Carl Gustav Jung- Copy
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“ Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. ”
- Mao Tse Tung- Copy
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“ I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ Oh, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip! - Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself. ”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- Copy
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“ He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; and he will smile upon her, which will now be so unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him into a notable contempt. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking. ”
- Albert Schweitzer- Copy
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“ There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life. ”
- Vicomte de Chateaubriand- Copy
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“ The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight. ”
- Henry Fairlie- Copy
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