It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
“That was not a glare. That was a dignified look of measured contempt.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation. — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world. — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“It was, for the time being, an empty threat, and he must have sensed it also, for he laughed easily and with… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“I cozied an apple in my hand and tried the weight of it against my palm, contemplating whether or not beaning a… — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt?… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general; one would think by them, that the whole… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I believe that this suffering, which Miss Hale says is impressed on the countenances of the people of Milton, is but the… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is… — Louis D. Brandeis 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
“Geralt,' said the lawyer, closing his eyes. 'What drives you? If you want to save Ciri . . . I wouldn't have… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“There are many good people who are denied the supreme blessing of children, and for these we have the respect and sympathy… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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