Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

- Mao Zedong

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

- Robert Walpole

I hate charts. I just despise 'em.

- Rush Limbaugh

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

- Quentin Crisp

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

- Publilius Syrus

The people who despise America are the editors of the 'New Statesman.' Their green-card applications must have been turned down.

- P. J. O'Rourke

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

- Noam Chomsky

Only the elites despise earning money.

- Newt Gingrich

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.

- Michelangelo

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

- Michel de Montaigne

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

- Alvin Toffler

I despise research. I think it's a crutch.

- Howard Schultz

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

- Frank Herbert

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

- Edward Young

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

- David Sarnoff

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

- Diane Abbott

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

- Charlize Theron

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

- Charles Caleb Colton

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

- Benjamin Disraeli