Quotes about Contempt

Familiarity breeds contempt. Votes: 5

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. Votes: 5

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt? Votes: 5

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. Votes: 5

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons. Votes: 5

Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy. Votes: 5

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. Votes: 5

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. Votes: 5

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. Votes: 4

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. Votes: 4

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. Votes: 4

Contempt mates well with pity. Votes: 3

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor. Votes: 3

Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion. Votes: 3

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue. Votes: 3

Contempt is a well-recognized defensive reaction. Votes: 3

Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue. Votes: 3

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. Votes: 3

Contempt is not a thing to be despised. Votes: 3

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny. Votes: 3

Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure. Votes: 3

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. Votes: 3

Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action. Votes: 3

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. Votes: 3

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals. Votes: 3

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head. Votes: 3

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. Votes: 3

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. Votes: 3

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it. Votes: 3

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. Votes: 3

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. Votes: 3

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute. Votes: 3

This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high. Votes: 3

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. Votes: 3

By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence." Votes: 3

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed. Votes: 3

Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will. Votes: 3

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. Votes: 3

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees. Votes: 3

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt. Votes: 3

Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point. Votes: 3

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it? Votes: 3

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them. Votes: 3

This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away. Votes: 3

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale. Votes: 3

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt Votes: 3

And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya! Votes: 3

Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above. Votes: 3

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. Votes: 2

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. Votes: 2

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt. Votes: 2

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. Votes: 2

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. Votes: 2

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. Votes: 2

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt. Votes: 2

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. Votes: 2

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. Votes: 2

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. Votes: 2

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. Votes: 2

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. Votes: 2

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects. Votes: 2

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict - which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt. Votes: 2

Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings. Votes: 2

Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult. Votes: 2

Familiarity breeds contempt. Votes: 0

I'm awash in self-contempt! Votes: 0

Tolerance is a placid contempt. Votes: 0

Familiarity gives rise to contempt. Votes: 0

Familiarity seems to breed contempt Votes: 0

Only the contemptible fear contempt. Votes: 0

Indifference is the strongest contempt. Votes: 0

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. Votes: 0

Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt. Votes: 0

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt. Votes: 0

Everything can be borne except contempt. Votes: 0

To be too busie gets contempt. Votes: 0

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity. Votes: 0

Some evils are cured by contempt. Votes: 0

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt. Votes: 0

President Obama has contempt for real money. Votes: 0

The universal religion - contempt for women. Votes: 0

An Englishman fears contempt more than death. Votes: 0

Compassion is contempt with a human face. Votes: 0

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. Votes: 0

Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt. Votes: 0

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration. Votes: 0

None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt. Votes: 0

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget. Votes: 0

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance. Votes: 0

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention. Votes: 0

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt. Votes: 0

Upon him the contempt of three planets descended. Votes: 0

Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace. Votes: 0

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer. Votes: 0

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. Votes: 0

Valor is the contempt of death and pain. Votes: 0

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. Votes: 0

Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world. Votes: 0

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. Votes: 0

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes. Votes: 0

He that searches for praise will often find contempt. Votes: 0

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. Votes: 0

contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love. Votes: 0

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled. Votes: 0

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals. Votes: 0

Success can breed contempt, and a casual attitude toward danger. Votes: 0

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals. Votes: 0

The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth. Votes: 0

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love. Votes: 0

Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything. Votes: 0

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt. Votes: 0

We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt. Votes: 0

Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt. Votes: 0

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. Votes: 0

Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt. Votes: 0

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. Votes: 0

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it. Votes: 0

Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were. Votes: 0

To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator. Votes: 0

You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care. Votes: 0

The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt. Votes: 0

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth. Votes: 0

Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience. Votes: 0

Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies. Votes: 0

I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity. Votes: 0

So face with calm that heritage And earn contempt before the age. Votes: 0

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word. Votes: 0

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. Votes: 0

Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. Votes: 0

Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person. Votes: 0

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. Votes: 0

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America. Votes: 0

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt. Votes: 0

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great. Votes: 0

Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt. Votes: 0

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything. Votes: 0

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. Votes: 0

Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt. Votes: 0

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. Votes: 0

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government. Votes: 0

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt. Votes: 0

Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything. Votes: 0

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile. Votes: 0

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead. Votes: 0

That was not a glare. That was a dignified look of measured contempt. Votes: 0

We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation. Votes: 0

Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt. Votes: 0

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. Votes: 0

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. Votes: 0

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame. Votes: 0

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death. Votes: 0

In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings. Votes: 0

Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God. Votes: 0

He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring. Votes: 0

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind. Votes: 0

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. Votes: 0

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life. Votes: 0

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court. Votes: 0

Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views. Votes: 0

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court. Votes: 0

Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt. Votes: 0

Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it. Votes: 0

Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law. Votes: 0

One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect. Votes: 0

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt. Votes: 0

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another. Votes: 0

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success. Votes: 0

It's very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror. Votes: 0

all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt. Votes: 0

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are. Votes: 0

There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat. Votes: 0

Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease. Votes: 0

Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified Votes: 0

I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt, and I claim that right. Votes: 0

Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words? Votes: 0

He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors. Votes: 0

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. Votes: 0

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt." Votes: 0

I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way. Votes: 0

If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us. Votes: 0

our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession. Votes: 0

Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise. Votes: 0

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter. Votes: 0

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. Votes: 0

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt. Votes: 0

A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him. Votes: 0

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners. Votes: 0

If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer. Votes: 0

Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them. Votes: 0

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy. Votes: 0

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion. Votes: 0

I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary. Votes: 0

Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt. Votes: 0

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant. Votes: 0

Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude. Votes: 0

I know about dance, like the creationist knows about science, and typically treat it with a similar contempt Votes: 0

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds. Votes: 0

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. Votes: 0

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law. Votes: 0

Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting. Votes: 0

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. Votes: 0

We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence. Votes: 0

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people. Votes: 0

Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity. Votes: 0

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman. Votes: 0

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. Votes: 0

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure. Votes: 0

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect. Votes: 0

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt. Votes: 0

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. Votes: 0

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt. Votes: 0

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons. Votes: 0

The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. Votes: 0

I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings. Votes: 0

To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ. Votes: 0

We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past. Votes: 0

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go. Votes: 0

Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven. Votes: 0

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy. Votes: 0

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. Votes: 0

The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it. Votes: 0

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. Votes: 0

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. Votes: 0

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt. Votes: 0

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man. Votes: 0

Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order. Votes: 0

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt. Votes: 0

JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it. Votes: 0

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them. Votes: 0

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. Votes: 0

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt Votes: 0

I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them. Votes: 0

Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt Votes: 0

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille Votes: 0

Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy. Votes: 0

When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt. Votes: 0

Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not. Votes: 0

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand. Votes: 0

In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men. Votes: 0

It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten. Votes: 0

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. Votes: 0

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us. Votes: 0

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt. Votes: 0

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed. Votes: 0

O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind. Votes: 0

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself. Votes: 0

Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity. Votes: 0

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another. Votes: 0

The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. Votes: 0

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing. Votes: 0

A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea. Votes: 0

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt. Votes: 0

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting. Votes: 0

The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength. Votes: 0

A schmuck is a general term of disrespect. It's a term of contempt and derision. It applies to a lot of people. Votes: 0

The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt. Votes: 0

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart. Votes: 0

She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him Votes: 0

When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion. Votes: 0

Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is ... a normal and healthy sentiment. Votes: 0

Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned. Votes: 0

Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt. Votes: 0

The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim. Votes: 0

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age Votes: 0

Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would overthrow. Votes: 0

Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie. Votes: 0

He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy. Votes: 0

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. Votes: 0

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. Votes: 0

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. Votes: 0

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. Votes: 0

Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt. Votes: 0

The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. Votes: 0

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear. Votes: 0

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color. Votes: 0

There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt. Votes: 0

The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet. Votes: 0

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt. Votes: 0

Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable. Votes: 0

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth. Votes: 0

Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves. Votes: 0

The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt for us. Votes: 0

Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt. Votes: 0

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life". Votes: 0

The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt for us. Votes: 0

Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones. Votes: 0

Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate. Votes: 0

Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity. Votes: 0

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Votes: 0

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt. Votes: 0

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read. Votes: 0

Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves Votes: 0

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine. Votes: 0

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.. Votes: 0

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell. Votes: 0

Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt. Votes: 0

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods. Votes: 0

A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt. Votes: 0

We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more. Votes: 0

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. Votes: 0

If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress. Votes: 0

The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization. Votes: 0

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements. Votes: 0

Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of contempt. Votes: 0

I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . . Votes: 0

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever. Votes: 0

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now. Votes: 0

Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but He saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt. Votes: 0

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country. Votes: 0

The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself:;:-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course. Votes: 0

I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character. Votes: 0

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father. Votes: 0

Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt. Votes: 0

And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt. Votes: 0

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification. Votes: 0

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol. Votes: 0

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans. Votes: 0

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life. Votes: 0

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing. Votes: 0

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country. Votes: 0

These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom. Votes: 0

The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right. Votes: 0

A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals. Votes: 0

When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride. Votes: 0

This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay her with contempt and oppression. Votes: 0

Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet. Votes: 0

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it. Votes: 0

It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new. Votes: 0

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of. Votes: 0

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it Votes: 0

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them. Votes: 0

My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to"). Votes: 0

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation. Votes: 0

all working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate ... Votes: 0

Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people. Votes: 0

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of. Votes: 0

Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism.... Skepticism they view with contempt, as the refuge of the unenlightened. Votes: 0

Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment. Votes: 0

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty. Votes: 0

Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life. Votes: 0

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them. Votes: 0

The love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of order, and the desire of impunity. Votes: 0

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. Votes: 0

To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold. Votes: 0

Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor. Votes: 0

I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt. He was a horrible human being. Votes: 0

No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics. Votes: 0

When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man. Votes: 0

Earth to Democrats: Displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. Votes: 0

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it. Votes: 0

Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it. Votes: 0

I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there. Votes: 0

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures. Votes: 0

We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us. Votes: 0

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them. Votes: 0

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt. Votes: 0

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel. Votes: 0

As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make the Cross of Christ of none effect. Votes: 0

Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt. Votes: 0

Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt. Votes: 0

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes. Votes: 0

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. Votes: 0

The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his. Votes: 0

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt. Votes: 0

Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all means - by preaching, persuasion, contempt and ridicule. Votes: 0

Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics. Votes: 0

And it's a... it's a term 'Punk Rock' that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion , style , elitism, satanism , and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll. Votes: 0

Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees. Votes: 0

Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is why they impose such colorful embarrassments upon them. Votes: 0

All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important. Votes: 0

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors. Votes: 0

If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem. Votes: 0

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Votes: 0

It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face. Votes: 0

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse. Votes: 0

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt. Votes: 0

A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him. Votes: 0

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands. Votes: 0

Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you. Votes: 0

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished. Votes: 0

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity. Votes: 0

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there. Votes: 0

... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog. Votes: 0

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed. Votes: 0

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing Votes: 0

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt. Votes: 0

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society. Votes: 0

My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes; I don't. Votes: 0

The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse of contempt, or the omissions of negligence. Votes: 0

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning. Votes: 0

This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as the barometer, and is as much affected by outward causes. Votes: 0

Please. Don't switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don't express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me. Votes: 0

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt. Votes: 0

Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once. Votes: 0

Who's gonna give me a TV show? I didn't work for an impeached, disbarred President who was held in contempt by a federal judge. That's what they look for in objective reporters. Votes: 0

It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command. Votes: 0

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them. Votes: 0

His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate. Votes: 0

Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the coming generation if we suffer this irreplaceable heritage to be wasted? Votes: 0

These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar. Votes: 0

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt. Votes: 0

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. Votes: 0

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false. Votes: 0

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility. Votes: 0

Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines. Votes: 0

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue. Votes: 0

The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as fellow human beings. Votes: 0

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us. Votes: 0

The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious. Votes: 0

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Votes: 0

I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Votes: 0

All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed... Votes: 0

When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck. Votes: 0

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk. Votes: 0

If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person.... Votes: 0

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale. Votes: 0

I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee. Votes: 0

Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did with Lyndon Johnson, and held them in contempt in either case. Votes: 0

People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down. Votes: 0

For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge. Others of course don't care, and they continue acting with contempt. Votes: 0

You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States. Votes: 0

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred. Votes: 0

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God. Votes: 0

The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual ... Votes: 0

Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy. Votes: 0

The great unthankfulness, contempt of God's word, and wilfulness of the world, make me fear that the divine light will soon cease to shine on man, for God's word has ever had its certain course. Votes: 0

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke. Votes: 0

One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt. Votes: 0

If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt. Votes: 0

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers. Votes: 0