He that despises shame wants a bridle. [ Proverb ]

He that regards not his reputation despises virtue. [ Proverb ]

A gallant man rather despises death than hates life. [ Proverb ]

He is above his enemies that despises their injuries. [ Proverb ]

Who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it. [ Mallet ]

He is the world's master who despises it, its slave who prizes it. [ Italian Proverb ]

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity. [ Trench ]

Who despises all that is despicable, is made to be impressed with all that is grand.

A bluestocking despises her duties as a woman, and always begins by making herself a man. [ Rousseau ]

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all. [ Talleyrand ]

The mind conscious of Innocence despises false reports: but we are always ready to believe a scandal. [ Ovid ]

What seems generosity is often disguised ambition, that despises small to run after greater interests. [ Rochefoucauld ]

In experiencing the ills of nature, one despises death; in learning the evils of society, one despises life. [ Chamfort ]

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. [ George Washington ]

Let the man who despises style, and says that he attends to the matter, recollect that if the lace is sold at a higher price than the noble metal, it owes its chief value to its elegance, and not to its material. [ Yriarte ]

Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. Him who is incapable of appreciating her she despises, and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]