Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ. — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Stride with a proud disdain through the swamp of human inadmissibility. — Joachim Peiper Copy Share Image
“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
It's hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you… — Veronica Webb Copy Share Image
Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes. — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Educated men - "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving,… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“His senseless disdain was beyond me. I have met only a few men like him in my life, and they rattle my… — Manoucher Farmanfarmaian Copy Share Image
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are the class clowns that are disruptive and the kids laugh and you earn the teacher's disdain, I was the kind… — Jason Mantzoukas Copy Share Image
Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
Love sinners, but hate their deeds, and do not disdain sinners for their failings, so that you yourself do not fall into… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Enough! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Chapter 4,‘Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief’, uses Zizek’s (1991) insights into cite political role of enjoyment to analyse the hyperbole… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“God of the gaps” Christianity seeks to present Christianity as playing a strong savior role whereby it fills the gaps and provides… — Paul Louis Metzger Copy Share Image
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
