Saint Francis de Sales
Saint, Bishop
"God is present everywhere, and every person is His work."
Despised quotes
Despised
22 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jonathan Swift
Satirist, Writer
"Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"What you have despised in yourself as a thorn opens into a rose."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom."
Marshall McLuhan
Philosopher, Media Theorist
"The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati."
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"Contempt is not a thing to be despised."
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"The unconquerable pang of despised love."
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"Those only are despicable who fear to be despised."
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"I have been despised by better men than you."
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