I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.
George Stevens

I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.
Conrad Veidt

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
John Maynard Keynes

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
Hedy Lamarr

I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.
Marty Robbins

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.
Saint Patrick

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
Abraham Maslow

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
Virgil

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
Andre Maurois

It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Publilius Syrus

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
Gustav Stresemann

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

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Blaise Pascal

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
Thucydides

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
Alvin Toffler

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.
Mary MacLane

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
Evelyn Waugh

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

No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.
Star Jones