Best Despised Quotes

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That’s why, for me, the issues of self-love, self-respect and self-regard are preconditions for human agency and especially black agency, given the fact that we have been and are such a hated and despised people.

Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.

When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well.

These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.

Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.

Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.

An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.

Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I’ve always despised that type, but I see how it happens now

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.

The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

The very highest is barely known.
Then comes that which people know and love,
Then that which is feared,
Then that which is despised.
Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

I’ve always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.

Enjoy’d no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated

He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you

The unconquerable pang of despised love.

Here`s what I`m curious about. For the president of Mexico, this man, Donald Trump, is, it`s probably not an understatement to say, despised by many Mexicans.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.

God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.

Trump is especially reviled and despised because he’s really a man. He’s really a man. He’s really what’s wrong with men, and they just can’t stand this.

Frost isn’t exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.