#despise

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it. ↗

— Alton Brown

#because #communicating #despise #done #hate

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

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war. ↗

— Allan Massie

#civilised #despise #do you know #folk #know

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

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. ↗

— Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#greatness #mediocrity #needed #politics

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

Can't really despise people you don't know. ↗

— Richard D. James

#know #people #really #you

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#brave man #coward #despises #indian #man

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. ↗

— George Santayana

#despise #dignity #himself #his #man

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. ↗

— Hu Shih

#another #beauty #become #cornerstone #cultural