There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
“What our contempt often hurls from us, We wish it our again; the present pleasure, By revolution lowering, does become The opposite… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Finally turning his head, he regarded me appraisingly, with contempt so thick that I expected to hear it drizzle to the floor… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“I have never met a truly strong person who didn't have self-respect. I think a lot of inwardly and outwardly directed contempt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid… — Rick Falkvinge Copy Share Image
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Think of the horse as your partner.and it's all one great dance. That's not to say it's always going to be easy… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Aaron Sorkin uses a lot of the same people again and again - the people he likes. I think if there's ever… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
There was a free election in Palestine, but it came out the wrong way. So instantly, the United States and Israel with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Montaigne: “Religion’s surest foundation is the contempt for life.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt. — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt. — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
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