Despised Quotes
Quotes on being scorned or unwelcome
These despised quotes range from a man who wanted to tear down the elite he resented to candid admissions of disliking aging itself, showing how contempt can turn inward as easily as outward. Read more in our Family collection.
I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
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Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.
I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never turn into that kind of person. My family also helps to keep me grounded. Whenever I get a...
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity...
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.
Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.
I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.
There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
I was a member of the Nationalist Party for several years. I don't remember how long. Those were very dreary days, because the Nationalist Party... it's hard to describe what it was. I suppose it held on to some kind...
I despised trying to lose weight, and I resented everyone that made me feel like I had to.
When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
