Now the Lord saith,Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel 2:30.

Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a'   admirer que de choses a'   me¤  priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise.

-Camus, Albert
  La Peste.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

-Hazlitt,William
  The Plain Speaker,'On the Pleasure of Hating'.

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo; Favete linguis; carmina non prius Audita Musarum sacerdos Virginibus puerisque canto. I despise the uninitiated mob and I warn them off: keep your tongues well-omened; I, priest of the Muses, am singing songs, never heard before, to girls and boys.

-Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65
Odes, bk.3, no.1, l.1^4 (translated by G  Williams).

Try notto despise yourselftoomuchöit's onlya conceit.

-Kavanagh, P(atrick) J(oseph Gregory)
  A Song and Dance, ch.6.

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  Letter to Duncan Grant,15 Dec.

   Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy When I am happy I live and despise writing For my Muse this cannot but be dispiriting.

-Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret)
  Selected Poems,'My Muse'.