Best 152 quotes in «contempt quotes» category

The highest indifference is when indeed you ignore you are ignoring someone.

The way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.

Ukitaka kutambulika usione aibu.

Though no one recognized his strength, Anand was among the strong. His satirical sense kept him aloof. At first this was only a pose, and imitation of his father. But satire led to contempt, and at Shorthills contempt, quick, deep, inclusive, became part of his nature. It led to inadequacies, to self-awareness and a lasting loneliness. But it made him unassailable.

Wanawake wenye umri wa miaka kumi na nane hadi ishirini na mbili wanaweza kutawaliwa. Ishirini na mbili hadi ishirini na nne wanaweza kukuumiza. Ishirini na nne hadi ishirini na saba unaweza kuweka malengo nao yenye natija. Ishirini na saba hadi thelathini watakuchunguza sana na hawatakupenda kutoka moyoni. Thelathini hadi thelathini na tano wamejawa na dharau za kijinga. Thelathini na tano hadi arobaini na mbili watakung’ang’ania kupoza hasira za huko walikotoka. Tofauti na wanawake wenye umri wa miaka kumi na nane hadi ishirini na mbili, na wanawake wenye umri wa miaka ishirini na nne hadi ishirini na saba, wengine wote ni kubahatisha.

We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to." [Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727]

We drove on in silence, Dad shaking his head in disgust every few minutes. I stared at him, wondering how it was we got to this place. How the same man who held his infant daughter and kissed her tiny face could one day be so determined to shut her out of his life, out of his heart. How, even when she reached out to him in distress - Please, Dad, come get me, come save me - all he could do was accuse her. How that same daughter could look at him and feel nothing but contempt and blame and resentment, because that's all that radiated off of him for so many years and it had become contagious.

When contempt has become the norm and misinformation is rampant, it makes way for a kind of rhetoric that may only be silenced by absolutism. Not trying to be an alarmist here, but I am deeply concerned.

We would sneer sometimes at how pointless it all was, all those bourgeois souls wrapping themselves in luxury, isolating themselves from the raw edges of the word; and in between puffs, we would smile, and dream of owning those streets, dreaming the same dreams that we scorned others for.

What! your wisdom thinks I must love the man I'm going to marry? The most unpleasant thing in the world. I should quarrel with him; I should be jealous of him; our menage would be conducted in a very ill-bred manner. A little quiet contempt contributes greatly to the elegance of life. ("The Lifted Veil")

..What our contempt often hurls from us, We wish it our again; the present pleasure, By revolution lowering,does become The opposite of itself..

What people instinctively regard as cool is real power - consistency. Pathetic is not cool. Being locked in a tragedy, but not knowing it. That's lameness.

Whore,' he cried. Well, she was not his wife, yet she slept with him. She lived in sin. What else but a whore did that make her; and what did her whoredom make of Ben?

When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.

And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were killed at that time with complete contempt and hate, who were tortured to death, starved, gassed, incinerated, and hanged.

You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.

You want to have more, but can you really have more.

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

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

An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

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

contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.

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

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

Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.

Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

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

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

Contempt is a well-recognized defensive reaction.

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

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

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.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

Everything can be borne except contempt.

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

Familiarity gives rise to contempt.

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

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

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.

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

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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