#despise

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#ambitious #content #despise #doubting #exertions

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#fear #more #often #pretend #really

He will have true glory who despises it. ↗

— Titus Livius

#glory #true #who #will

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#despises #diverted #entertain #fellows #i

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#despise #infirmities #most #our #savage

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#criticism #despise #european #film #film criticism

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

— Saint Patrick

#despised #eyes #faithful #i #i am

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#him #like #liking #man #newspaper

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. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#blunder #crime #despised #easy #enough

No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all. ↗

— Star Jones

#exercise #i #still #time #want