Best 152 quotes in «contempt quotes» category

An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

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.

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.

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

contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.

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

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

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.

Everything can be borne except contempt.

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.

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.

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

Familiarity gives rise to contempt.

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

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 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.

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

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

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

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

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 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.

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

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

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

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

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

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

Indifference is the strongest contempt.

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

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

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.

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

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.