The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say 'We did it ourselves.'
If I be worthy I live for my God to teach the heathen even though they may despise me.
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
The dupe of friendship and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment and at last despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise we don't believe in it at all.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise and more often despise what we really fear.
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Despise not death but welcome it for nature wills it like all else.
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.
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
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.
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to whom it has been refused.
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to whom it has been refused.
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.
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.