As painful as it is to receive contempt from another, it…

“He didn’t even look at Lizzie, just stared at Emily, his cold blue eyes filled with such contempt she feared she might cry.”

— Bev Pettersen

“opprobrious term, employed to impose contempt upon”

— Jabari Asim

Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to…

— Michael Ignatieff

Every person of any rank in the left, from voter on up to cabinet member to elected official in the Democrat Party, has contempt.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have…

— Diane Johnson

Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.

— Thucydides

Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled…

— Mark the Evangelist

Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends that makes…

— Harold Ramis

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just…

— Thucydides

There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we…

— Francois Fenelon

Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.

— Jim Rohn

Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them.

— Paul Wolfowitz

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

— Margaret Mead

Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

— Vikrant Parsai