Top Despised Quotes
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
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
Sallust
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
George Savile
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
Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
William Moulton Marston
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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 
71% of people like this quote
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
Sallust
68% of people like this quote
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
George Savile
60% of people like this quote
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
59% of people like this quote
Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
William Moulton Marston
58% of people like this quote
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
Christian Nestell Bovee
55% of people like this quote
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
Giacomo Casanova
54% of people like this quote
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
54% of people like this quote
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
Charles Eastman
53% of people like this quote
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Ralph Waldo EmersonWilliam HazlittBryant H. McGillChristian Nestell Bovee SallustGiacomo CasanovaEdward GibbonAlison BechdelGeorge SavileFritz SauckelCharles EastmanJerome K. JeromeHu ShihMarie von Ebner-EschenbachPaul Muldoon
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