#despise

He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman. ↗

— Gaston Leroux

#despise #hate #love #love

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#argumentation #avoidance #challenge #challenger #contempt

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

— George Savile

#been #business #celebrated #despised #most

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women. ↗

— Emily Carr

#canada #consider #decided #despise #essentially

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#anyone #cannot #child #despises #fooled

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#i #most #people #politics #those

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#deeply #despise #either #high #men

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. ↗

— Robert Burns

#character #complaint #cowardly #despised #enduring

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#enough #few #few people #foolishness #knowledge

Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman. ↗

— William Moulton Marston

#beautiful #beautiful woman #because #become #character