Top 30 Despicable Quotes

You can be brilliant in some ways and despicable in others. You can be a clean, upright, moral individual in your private life who never swears, treats women with respect, and speaks highly of duty and honor – and go out every day and dedicate yourself to a cause that makes the world worse.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

There are all sorts of despicable people who journalists have done interviews with, and it’s been useful. Isn’t more information better than less information?

Because of President Obama’s failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate.

Too many days, that awful, despicable, rude, ruthless bully called cancer has knocked on the door of those I love.

I want to make sure those who view despicable terrorist content online, including jihadi websites, far-right propaganda, and bomb-making instructions, face the full force of the law.

A favorite film? The first ‘Ice Age’ and the first ‘Despicable Me.’ They’re the films that have introduced me to characters that I still feel extremely bonded with.

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

Any conversations we hear about ‘So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?’ are despicable.

Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

Bobby Kennedy’s conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on, he displayed nasty, self-pitying, and messianic qualities that would have made him a dangerously authoritarian president.

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

In ‘UnREAL’, for me, just being so openly feminist, just being so overtly, like, ‘This show is about women who are not necessarily likable, doing a job that is despicable, and we are not going to be afraid of that.’

You have to make a choice, and you have to commit to a character. You’re either a babyface or a character that the fans relate to, support, love and aspire to be, or you’re not. And if you’re not, you’re a heel: you’re despicable, and they need to learn to love to hate you.

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

Anyone who expresses anti-Semitic ideas in Poland is like a person who steps on a grave – a despicable act in Polish culture.

There’s still a lot I’m angry about, a lot of human behaviour that’s appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.

Shoot, man, I loved being a damn heel. Something about that, just going out there and being the most despicable person you could ever be, was a real turn-on for me. And I grew up a real shy kid in south Texas, and it was something for me to lean on and have fun with.

I willingly took John Lennon’s life. What I did was despicable.

It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel’s attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

The demonization of people who don’t have a voice is particularly despicable, and the only thing we can do in our own little way is hold a mirror up to society and kind of say we’re better than that.

It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain.

You’re absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he’s a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.

To circumscribe our freedom of thought because of the delicate sensibilities of suburban paper pushers is the most despicable type of totalitarian tyranny imaginable.

We’ve watched ‘Beauty and the Beast’ at least 30 to 35 times, ‘Moana,’ ‘Despicable Me’ – ‘1,’ ‘2’ and ‘3’ – all of these multiple times.

The moral man is necessarily narrow in that he knows no other enemy than the ‘immoral’ man. ‘He who is not moral is immoral!’ and accordingly reprobate, despicable, etc. Therefore, the moral man can never comprehend the egoist.

These puppy mills are horrific. It’s totally for-profit breeding. It’s despicable.

There’s something really charming about a character that is fundamentally flawed and does some pretty despicable things, but yet you still kind of love him.

I’m always amazed that people are shocked when their despicable action causes an equally despicable reaction.