“There’s nothing quite as scorching as a teenager’s contempt. It has a breathless sting, and it lingers for a very long time.” — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order. — William Morris Copy Share Image
Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Paul said, 'You always had some contempt for me.' 'Yes.' 'And love too.' 'Yes.' A flicker over her stare was the facial… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point. — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
God established patriarchy when he established the world. God established a patriarchal world. If we're going to have true reformation in America,… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
One creates his own way of contentment, with mindset of satisfaction what they have according their merit & ability. They strive to… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
He still crosses my mind several times a day, but with each one of those times, a feeling of contempt also passes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that the real irritation of those on the religious right is not that their particular creed is not… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there -… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are,… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Consult, v.t. To seek another’s approval of a course already decided on. Contempt, n. The feeling of a prudent man for an… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“I snatched a flute of champagne from a passing waiter who harrumphed with disdain. The degree of contempt underlings are willing to… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Who's gonna give me a TV show? I didn't work for an impeached, disbarred President who was held in contempt by a… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the… — Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them. — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
“Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
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