“Why does someone, in the midst of your worst suffering, decide the time has come to drive home, disguised in the form… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
For those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows… — Allan Pease Copy Share Image
“Neuspeh u našoj sredini učini čoveka budalom. Osramoti ga. Ponizi, isprlja. Ideji se niko ne suprostavlja idejom, nego nipodaštavanjem i psovkom. Znanje… — Dobrica Ćosić Copy Share Image
Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
I don't think that the media is ever going to be on the same stage with Donald Trump. I don't think the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an… — Kenyon Cox Copy Share Image
MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“If in our day there are so many men that pass before the Cross wagging their head, who gaze at our altars… — Emile Bougaud Copy Share Image
Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a… — Bran Ferren Copy Share Image
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean… — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons. — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
“Can I help you?" he said, in a manner which indicated very clearly that not only did he not wish to help… — Graham Austin-King Copy Share Image
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure. — Toby Young Copy Share Image
Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense… — Earl Of Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Speak nothing into the ears of a man without discernment, Lest he treat your wise words with contempt. - PROVERBS 23:9 — Bible Copy Share Image