“Forgive me if your contempt from on high always brings out the worst in me.” — Laura Lee Guhrke Copy Share Image
Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. — Henry Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror. — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the… — William Watson Copy Share Image
Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another. — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking… — Alice Paul Copy Share Image
When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt. — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
“Contempt is conceived with expectations. Respect is conceived with expressions of gratitude. We can choose which one we will obsess over—expectations,” — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Show no fear to your enemies. Only contempt. Never let anyone look down on you. You're just as good as any of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement -… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The wide and unregulated power of contempt given to the courts has been deliberately interpreted by the courts in a manner which… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
“Phew!” His small blue eyes shone with repugnance, a look of such unreasoning contempt for my skin that it filled me with… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
“It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets.… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
