Despise
To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.
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Despise Quotations
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil Gibran
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Marcus Aurelius
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
Evelyn Waugh
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
William Penn
What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
Michelangelo
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Blaise Pascal
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Quentin Crisp
Despise Translations
despise in Danish is foragte
despise in Dutch is minachten, verachten
despise in German is verachten, verachten, verachte
despise in Italian is disprezzare
despise in Latin is sperno sprevi spretum, conculco, despicio
despise in Spanish is desde ar, despreciar
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