#despise

If she knew me as I really am she would despise me, and certainly not aid or abet my evil designs. To veil their vices from the sight of the good is the only resource of those who are not blind and know themselves to be vicious.' Thus was I confirmed in habits of hypocrisy; and these, for a time, worked only too effectually to my advantage. ↗

— William Beckford

#disguise #dissimulate #evil #good #honesty

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. ↗

— Andre Malraux

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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. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#always #because #despised #european #every

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. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#being #changing #constantly #contingent #despised

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. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable. ↗

— Xun Zi

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I'm in this business because I despise honest labor. ↗

— Marty Robbins

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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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