Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I think when it comes to women who write or who fancy ourselves 'hip downtown literati', there is a certain contempt for… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and… — Fouad Ajami Copy Share Image
“Someone once asked the Spartan king Leonidas to identify the supreme warrior virtue from which all others flowed. He replied: "Contempt for… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
The world cries for men who are strong--strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray that you will… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I can by no means approve the scurrility and contempt with which the Romanists have often been treated. I dare not rail… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“What’s up with you and that new guy anyway?” Simon watched David leaving the room with contempt on his face. “Nothing.” “Nothing… — Nely Cab Copy Share Image
“If a king should fall under such contempt or envy that he could not keep his subjects in their duty but by… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man;… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Americans have long felt that NATO isn't doing its job and that the Europeans aren't contributing enough. Trump has accelerated the decline… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
In the first manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin,1… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
Every argument that Margaret Thatcher ever made internationally didn't have a great deal to do with her contempt for Communism - she… — Brian Mulroney Copy Share Image
If the choice is given to us of liberty or security, we must scorn the latter with the proper contempt of free… — James Farley Copy Share Image
In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess-fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men… — Herbert Newton Casson Copy Share Image
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper,… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Imagine a life spent having to overcome an endless line of people like St. Vincent and Nelson. I am right—demonstrably right—repeatedly; yet,… — Tom Grundner Copy Share Image
We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The great object was to get rid of Christianity, and to convert our churches into halls of science. The plan was not… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the… — James Laver Copy Share Image
We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“The infidelity of the Gentile world, and that more especially of men of rank and learning in it, is resolved into a… — William Paley Copy Share Image
It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
