Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch. — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt, and I claim that right. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession. — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them. — Claude Chabrol Copy Share Image
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only… — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I frowned, gaping at the blond in disbelief. “You’re the grim reaper?” Tod glanced at me for the first time, his frown… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but… — William Osler Copy Share Image
As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“I have never met a truly strong person who didn't have self-respect. I think a lot of inwardly and outwardly directed contempt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy.… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“But when fundamentals are doubted, as at present, we must try to recover the candour and wonder of the child; the unspoilt… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Every person - whether Greek or Barbarian - who is in training for wisdom, leading a blameless, irreproachable life, chooses neither to… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
“Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“It contained a sad, but too common story of the hard-heartedness of the wealthy, and the misery endured by the children of… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers… — Neville Figgis Copy Share Image
“I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.” — Juan Miro Copy Share Image
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Familiarity brings contempt but rarity breeds admiration — Ogunsakin Ayobami Ayorinde Copy Share Image
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and reverent heart. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
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