I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect…

“I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one…

— Marianne Moore

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

— Brad Feld

The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I stared at her like,…

— Adora Svitak

Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.

— A. C. Dixon

In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between…

— Ben Lerner

Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.

— Sergei Lukyanenko

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