The pangs of despised love. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III. Sc.1 ]

The poor man's wisdom is despised. [ South ]

Better a master be feared than despised. [ Proverb ]

Danger comes the sooner when it is despised. [ Syrus ]

Old age though despised, is coveted by all men. [ Proverb ]

Those only are despicable who fear to be despised. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

That danger which is despised arrives the soonest. [ Laberius ]

Age is rarely despised but when it is contemptible. [ Johnson ]

Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised. [ Proverb ]

An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies. [ Publius Syrus ]

Virtue is despised, if it be seen in a thread-bare cloak. [ Proverb ]

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. [ Brickerstaff ]

To be despised is more galling to a foolish man than to be whipped.

I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint, and the cowardly, feeble resolve. [ Burns ]

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. [ Burke ]

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to whom it has been refused. [ Gibbon ]

Madame X. is a woman of too much wit and cleverness to be ever despised as much as some women less despicable. [ Chamfort ]

If it is a pleasure to be envied and shot at, to be maligned standing and to be despised falling, then it is a pleasure to be great. [ South ]

Firmness, both in sufferance and exertion, is a character I would wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and the cowardly feeble resolve. [ Burns ]

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work. [ De Sales ]

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised by it, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem. [ Pascal ]

We are more jealous of frivolous accomplishments with brilliant success, than of the most estimable qualities without. Dr. Johnson envied Garrick, whom he despised, and ridiculed Goldsmith, whom he loved. [ Hazlitt ]

From the year 1789 to the year 1860 no nation has ever known a more unbounded prosperity, a fuller space of happiness. In the short space of seventy years, within the turn of a single life, the nation, poor, weak and despised, raised itself to the pinnacle of power and of glory. [ Robert C. Winthrop ]

Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes. [ Chesterfield ]

When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon those whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious with out pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness. [ Dr. Johnson ]