For men who have lived for a lifetime on a diet of…

“Contempt, disdain, scorn: these emotions were stops along a closed loop that originated and terminated in a sense of superiority.”

— Kamila Shamsie

“But they bear the burden of being unpopular as proof of their importance - and these eminences turn the suspicion that less elevated customers…

— Joseph Roth

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

— Ira Gershwin

The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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