despised quotes

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,HetrustedontheL that hewoulddeliverhim: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms 22:6^8.

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the L revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely hehath borne ourgriefs, and carried our sorrows.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 53:1^4.

He would certainly have despised Christ for being the son of a carpenter, if the NewTestament had not proved in time to be such a howling commercial success.

- (Henry) Graham Greene
  Dr Fischer of Geneva, ch.7.

An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'England in1819' (published in1839).