Despised

Famous quotes containing the word despised:

“The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)

“You may have known your neighbor yesterday for a thief, a drunkard, or a sensualist, and merely pitied or despised him, and despaired of the world; but the sun shines bright and warm this first spring morning, re-creating the world, and you ... feel the spring influence with the innocence of infancy, and all his faults are forgotten.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)