Sharon Horgan

I despise shows that present friendship where you're always there for each other and really strong because I don't know anyone like that. I mean, I've got great friends, but I can go months without seeing them because I think, 'I just can't deal with having to give you anything.

Irish Actress

Wangechi Mutu

Being taught to despise your body is being taught to perhaps admire someone else's body more than yours - being taught that your body is good for certain things and not for others.

Kenyan Artist

Marley Dias

Fashion is very important to me. I dress androgynously - I absolutely despise dresses and skirts and tights - and I started wearing glasses in the third grade.

American Activist

Otto Weininger

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.

Austrian Philosopher

Martin H. Fischer

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

American Physicist

Charles Spurgeon

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.

British Clergyman

Thucydides

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

Greek Historian

William Penn

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

English Leader

Chief Joseph

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

Leader

William Hazlitt

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

English Critic

Despise conveys a strong negative emotion, stronger than just disliking someone or something.

Emotional Weight

Use despise to express a powerful aversion; it's much more than just not enjoying something.

Intensity Matters

Despise often implies a personal element of contempt or disdain, especially in betrayals or moral clashes.

Personal Rejection

Despise in this context indicates a feeling stronger than discomfort or dislike for mundane tasks.

Not Just Discomfort

When despising something, it suggests it's unworthy of one's time, attention, or effort.

Beneath One's Level

Sometimes, despising something reflects a sense of self-respect and personal standards.

Showing Self-Respect

 And the advice I despised more than any other advice was, "You've got to go network with everybody." When your psychological world is breaking down, the hardest thing to do is to try and reach out and build up your social world. And so we studied exactly this idea on a much larger scale.

The secret to great...

 It was very important for us to get through to the people. And through the children is usually the way to go. They are fascinated with snakes. They haven't got that steely thing that you end up either fearing or hating or despising or loathing them in some way. They are interested.

Romulus Whitaker: The...

 against children are the most despised even though I didn't do those things that they said I did you know it's still a crime involving a child and then you got a lot of people around here who just don't like things like that you know

Prison Victim PIPE National...

 to sort of despise or just be baffled by the support, assuming that it's for some of the unattractive features. Actually, maybe they're supporting him despite those, because they see something exciting. They see a man of action.

Political common ground...

 and that even included attempting to maintain control of her name which wasn't easy dear mr solzberger she wrote to the publisher of the new york times may i make a request of the times through you despise the mild expression

Amelia Earhart Part II:...

 knowing full well that I would be giving them a platform and attention for ideas that I despised and rejected. But this is just a further evolution of a journey of uncomfortable learning throughout my life.

Why it's worth listening...

 not to control him. We're here to help him figure out his place in the world, to uncover his greatest gifts, to discover why he was born. We are raising a free black boy in a world that despises black joy,

Ebony Roberts and Shaka...

 had liberated could not become democracies overnight he claimed he despised dictatorship but he became a dictator more than once and his romantic life had a way of spilling out into the public realm it's

The impact of Simón...

 so much so that they were later forged in turn by his own son. The same canvases went from revered classics to despised forgeries to works of art respected for the skill and notoriety of the forger.

The art forger who...

 and how religious authorities went the other way, and how their supporters in the congregation went the other way; but an unsuspecting, despised person came along,