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“ Miss Evans was a scornful Max Reinhardt saint... She left the room, her hips provocative and fluid. page 270 Murder In The Madhouse/…

— Jonathan Latimer

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

— John Knowles

Charlotte leaned forward across the table. “The Dark Sisters never mentioned what use they intended to make of your abilities, did they?” “You know…

— Cassandra Clare

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Cassie could be affectionate and scornful at the same time, and I always felt that if I wasn't careful, the scorn might win out.”

— Claire Messud

“...there were none so scornful as those who had had to learn the hard way.”

— Elizabeth Bear

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if…

— Booth Tarkington

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

— Samuel Johnson

we are so scornful when we are young!

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

— Booth Tarkington

“She was scornful. “He talks to you personally?” “He talks to everyone personally. Most people just don’t bother to listen.”

— Francine Rivers

Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being…

— Henning Mankell

Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

— Samuel Johnson

“The gods! long since they hold us in contempt, Scornful of gifts thus offered by the lost! Why should we fawn and flinch away…

— Aeschylus