Famous quotes containing the word despised:
“It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn’t be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.”
—Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927)
“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him.... Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah 53:3-4.
“Men talk glibly enough about moonshine, as if they knew its qualities very well, and despised them; as owls might talk of sunshine,—none of your sunshine!—but this word commonly means merely something which they do not understand,—which they are abed and asleep to, however much it may be worth their while to be up and awake to it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)