I think familiarity breeds contempt. I mean, we'll never get another Greta Garbo will we? Someone would go in with a camera… — Alan Carr Copy Share Image
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the… — Plutarch 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
Earth to Democrats: Displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
To give your vision & goal to reality, give it wings of action.Dont wait things to be happened,make it happened. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
I never met Lou Reed, never was one of those journalists lucky enough to be the object of his derision, contempt, condescension,… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
“One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in… — Joan Smith Copy Share Image
I think psychologically [Margaret Thatcher] is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Not all television scripts are created equal. And the process is ridiculous. They send you a script and want you in the… — Holt McCallany Copy Share Image
I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
If contempt of the world and heavenly affection is a necessary temper of christians, it is necessary that this temper appear in… — William Law Copy Share Image
It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“She said: “It’s funny about ‘passing.’ We disapprove of it and at the same time condone it. It excites our contempt and… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
“Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
In one period the grossest ignorance and barbarism prevailed in the world; and afterwards, in a more enlightened age, the most daring… — William Carey Copy Share Image
“None were good enough for her, so I held them in contempt and hated them. They in turn hated and feared me.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age!… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
“avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my… — Gen Urobuchi Copy Share Image
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and… — John Milton Copy Share Image
When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is the greatest thing you can experience? It is the hour of your greatest contempt. The hour in which even your… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image