Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

- Albert Camus

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

- Denis Diderot

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

- Francois Fenelon

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

- Len Wein

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

- Stellan Skarsgard

There's something really charming about a character that is fundamentally flawed and does some pretty despicable things, but yet you still kind of love him.

- Tom Ellis