Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny. — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon Copy Share Image
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words? — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“That was not a glare. That was a dignified look of measured contempt.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It was, for the time being, an empty threat, and he must have sensed it also, for he laughed easily and with… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“[A] nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.” — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt?… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed… — Greg Chappell Copy Share Image
“Some mate," Karl Framm said with contempt. "Hell, that little stern-wheeler we're chasin' don't draw nothin'. After a good rain, she could… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I shared with Fleur the mysterious self-contempt of the survivor. There were times we hated who we were, and who we had… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us.… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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