Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?
Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
For centuries, Jews have been unjustly treated and despised. It is time they were treated with justice and humanity. God wills it and the Church wills it. St. Paul tells us that the Jews are our brothers. They should also be welcomed as friends.
If I am despised by the world, If it considers me as nothing, A divine peace flood me. For I have the Host as my support. When I draw near the ciborium, All my sighs are heard. . . To be nothing is my glory. I am the atom of Jesus.
Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
No putt is too short to be despised.
He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.
Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I despised everything that might restrict my forward momentum. She knew that bullets have no conscience. They speed past things and miss their marks as often as they hit them.
I've always despised the hippies.
I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.
My father cared very much about courage, physical courage as well. He despised those who didn't have it. But he never said to me, 'I want you to be courageous. ' He just smiled with pride every time I did something difficult or won a race with the boys.
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.
I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is only a widely practised dilettantism, the chemists are ashamed to call themselves chemists because the pharmacists, who are despised, have assumed this name.
An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.
Smokers in our culture are hated and despised. Smokers, people look down on 'em, don't want anything to do with them. Smokers are really the modern incarnation of evil, and yet smokers, because of all the taxes they are paying, are funding most of the children's health care programs the federal government has.
People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.