One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Prophecies and glory forge a massive disdain. For lying passive in the shadows whilst the enemy reigns. — Cradle Of Filth Copy Share Image
Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce… — George Croly Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for… — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
“Us with our busy, busy little lives, finding no better way to pass our years than in competitive disdain.” — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
“I don't even suffer. My disdain for everything is so complete that I even disdain myself. The contempt I have for the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime,… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A soul-winner can do nothing without God. He must cast himself on the Invisible, or be a laughing-stock to the devil, who… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation? What do you know of Love except the name? Love has a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
Donia asked incredulously. “What were you doing?” “The day had just begun, and we were dancing,” Aislinn said. “Dancing?” Donia looked at… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
If you increase the number of rockets you build and you buy, then it's the scale of the economy, the price is… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
What’s that poem again?” Will, who had been twirling his empty teacup around his fingers, stood up straight and declaimed: “Each spake… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“suggestion that “sin” does not make God angry (a frequent idea in modern thought as a reaction against the caricatures of an… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a… — Horace Copy Share Image
I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes, that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one. — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
“Contempt, disdain, scorn: these emotions were stops along a closed loop that originated and terminated in a sense of superiority.” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection. — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
“The satisfaction we take from performing a task (especially when we have no belief in the task and even disdain it) shows… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image