Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not. — Aesop Copy Share Image
“ Bethune was a communist and an atheist with a healthy contempt for his evangelical father.” — Larry Hannant Copy Share Image
Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success. — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“For men who have lived for a lifetime on a diet of contempt and disdain, the temptation to gain instant respect in… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Now he was gone and she was married to a man she not only did not love but for whom she had… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt… — Nance O'Neil Copy Share Image
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them. — John M. Gottman Copy Share Image
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Contempt for one's own comrades, for the troops of the enemy, and, above all, fierce contempt for one's own person, are what… — William James Copy Share Image
“All marriages are like this. The component parts are contempt and irritation because we know each other by heart, by rote; we're… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of… — Claudius Aelianus Copy Share Image
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail… — John Hall Copy Share Image
Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
“He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“The whole attitude of 'man against the world', of man as a 'world-negating' principle, of a man as the measure of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The virtues you possess now bring you eternal pain. All you have is contempt for a life you can't obtain. — Hatebreed Copy Share Image
“ Hatred had blossomed from the vine of contempt in his heart, flowers of dark, grim splendor. ” — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
