Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile. — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it. — Mae West Copy Share Image
There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life. — Cato the Elder Copy Share Image
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to… — John Muir Copy Share Image
If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
She'd always had such contempt for mundanes, the way all Shadowhunters did--she'd believed that they were soft, stupid, sheeplike in their complacency.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people… — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Recalling that a good chunk of the 47 percent who don't pay income taxes are Romney supporters - especially of course seniors… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
“...This is a place of learning where very few learn anything of value. That you, who have courage and intelligence, are held… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt. — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Crime is contagious…if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors. — Saadi Copy Share Image
One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Familiarity, and a few dozen cheap flyballs off the Monster, breed contempt.” — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
