Best 152 quotes in «contempt quotes» category

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

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

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

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

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

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

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.

Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

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

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

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The universal religion - contempt for women.

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

Tolerance is a placid contempt.

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

Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

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

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

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

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

With health care, once you set yourself up as the source for people's health care, not insurance, you own them. That way you have total control over how they must live in order to qualify for health care. And that's what Marxists want. Marxists and leftists do not trust individuals. They have contempt individuals won't do the right thing, the right thing being defined by what Marxists want.

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

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

You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.

Luther's personality as well as his teachings shows ambivalence toward authority. On the one hand he is overawed by authority—that of a worldly authority and that of a tyrannical God—and on the other hand he rebels against authority—that of the Church. He shows the same ambivalence in his attitude toward the masses. As far as they rebel within the limits he has set he is with them. But when they attack the authorities he approves of, an intense hatred and contempt for the masses comes to the fore. […] we shall show that this simultaneous love for authority and the hatred against those who are powerless are typical traits of the "authoritarian character.

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

Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.

A douchebag has an image to maintain. He is not real. He is the kind of guy who will change his last name into something cooler and more impressive.

Bethune was a communist and an atheist with a healthy contempt for his evangelical father.

[A] nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.

And at once I fell in love with her, for if it is sometimes enough to make us love a woman that she should look on us with contempt, as I supposed Mlle Swann to have done, and that we should think that she can never be ours, sometimes, too, it is enough that she should look on us kindly, as Mme de Guermantes was doing, and that we should think of her as almost ours already.

[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it." [Man and the Gospel (1865)]

A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep them locked up and locked out says far more about ourselves than it does about them.

Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratiram’s grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air.

Contempt is the kryptonite of a good relationship.

But Joringel had no chance to answer. For Jorinda ran at her brother and threw her arms around him and held him so tight he could not breathe. Little Jorinda and little Joringel held each other for a long, long time. Neither said a word. At last Joringel withdrew and looked at his sister. "If you won't leave me," he whispered, "I won't leave you

...dans l'un comme dans l'autre cas, je me voyais obligé de passer toute ma vie en société intime avec ce qu'il y a sous le ciel de plus méprisable et de plus dégoûtant.

Deep down, people who deliberately distribute other people’s music and stuff feel contempt for professionals. And it’s not just culture — these days lots of people are contemptuous of everything. Without realizing it, they’re searching for things to despise.

Demons would often try to make me feel some negative emotion, like hatred or contempt. Because the only way I could become vulnerable to them, is if I indulged in some negative emotion, in their presence. In the realm of hatred and anger, and other negative emotions, demons are the masters.

Anxiety can make anybody act nasty, big or small. You will be tested for your strength, and if you are seen as too weak, you will sometimes be treated abusively, discarded and avoided. I'm not saying that this should happen. I'm simply describing human beings as they are.