Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“…..she needed him to know she did not care. She was spirited, tenacious, and full of contempt for him.” — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“Style, after all, is a kind of humor, Something truly beneath contempt...” — Larry Levis Copy Share Image
If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule… — Joseph R. Bartlett Copy Share Image
“Familiarity does not breed contempt. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to hide the secret conviction that they’re boring.” — Patrick Honovich Copy Share Image
I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
When there's something you can't understand no matter how much you think about it, you can't let yourself brood over it forever. — D-Gray Man Copy Share Image
A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
and standing before me a bloodied bottle of Absolut in her hand, is Mrs. Allington, her pink jogging suit drenched, her chest… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Laziness can be a value on its own for those who want to show supremacy through contempt for work and wish to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The God of hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A god who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of… — Heber Doust Curtis Copy Share Image
Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest;… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Its contempt for citizens ... is so routine, and so unlimited, that the agency has become a kind of Frankenstein, running wild… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
I like art that challenges you and makes a lot of people angry because they don't get it. Because they refuse to… — John Waters 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
