Contempt Quotes

The universal religion - contempt for women.

— Andrea Dworkin

Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never

— Lord Chesterfield

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

— Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

Everything can be borne except contempt.

— Voltaire

I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.

— Dan Jenkins

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

— H. L. Mencken

Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Mason Cooley

There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.

— Monica Edwards

“it is sometimes enough to make us love a woman that she looks on us with contempt,”

— Marcel Proust

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

— John Kennedy Toole

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

— Jonathan Swift

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

— William Shakespeare

We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.

— Joe Lieberman

Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

— Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind…

— Tony Judt

Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all…

— Leo Tolstoy

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch;…

— George Santayana

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Richard M. Weaver

“I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for…

— Marianne Moore

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she…

— Jane Austen

“I frowned, gaping at the blond in disbelief. “You’re the grim reaper?” Tod glanced at me for the first time, his frown…

— Rachel Vincent

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but…

— William Osler

As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for…

— Neil MacGregor

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents,…

— Socrates

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It…

— Noam Chomsky

I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty…

— Colin Wilson

I think that what's actually happening is the collapse of the Center - the centrist semi-coalitions, mildly social-democrat, mildly conservative, that have…

— Noam Chomsky

If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force,…

— Jefferson Davis

Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Recalling that a good chunk of the 47 percent who don't pay income taxes are Romney supporters - especially of course seniors…

— William Kristol

“...This is a place of learning where very few learn anything of value. That you, who have courage and intelligence, are held…

— Jim Butcher

“Soon he essentially stopped talking. "I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode," he mentioned. Eventually, he was down to uttering…

— Michael Finkel

“When everything broken is broken, and everything dead is dead, and the hero has looked into the mirror with complete contempt, and…

— Robert Hass

Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice…

— Khaled Hosseini

Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a…

— Pierre Bayle