Best 152 quotes in «contempt quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

Indifference is the strongest contempt.

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

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, 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 Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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)]

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

Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another.

Contempt is the kryptonite of a good relationship.

...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.

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.

Familiarity may breed contempt; but perhaps it would be more truthful to say that familiarity breeds blindness

Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.