“To know all is to despise all.”
“I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.”
“We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.”
“That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.”
“I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should.”
“All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise”