DESPISE in Classic Quotes

1  It makes me wretched that you should encourage a man so generally despised as Drummle.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII

2  She threw the cards down on the table when she had won them all, as if she despised them for having been won of me.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII

3  So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII

4  Here is a chicken had round from the Boar, here is a tongue had round from the Boar, here's one or two little things had round from the Boar, that I hope you may not despise.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX

5  I was haunted by the fear that she would, sooner or later, find me out, with a black face and hands, doing the coarsest part of my work, and would exult over me and despise me.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV

6  Drummle laughed outright, and sat laughing in our faces, with his hands in his pockets and his round shoulders raised; plainly signifying that it was quite true, and that he despised us as asses all.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI

7  He held on, in a dull persistent way, and Estella held him on; now with encouragement, now with discouragement, now almost flattering him, now openly despising him, now knowing him very well, now scarcely remembering who he was.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII

8  I began to consider whether I was not more naturally and wholesomely situated, after all, in these circumstances, than playing beggar my neighbor by candle-light in the room with the stopped clocks, and being despised by Estella.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII