Best 152 quotes in «contempt quotes» category

Everything can be borne except contempt.

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

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

Familiarity gives rise to contempt.

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

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.

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

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

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.

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

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

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

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

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

Indifference is the strongest contempt.

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

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

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

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

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

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.

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

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

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.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

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

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

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

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

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

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

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

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

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.