In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings. — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt. — A. C. Dixon Copy Share Image
Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not. — Aesop Copy Share Image
Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
“Familiarity may breed contempt; but perhaps it would be more truthful to say that familiarity breeds blindness” — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“In the midst of these fine gentlemen with their great names and their ancient traditions of respectability, the two women sat face… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Contempt is conceived with expectations. Respect is conceived with expressions of gratitude. We can choose which one we will obsess over-expectations, or… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
“Oh, that's just Thud! That's easy!" yapped a voice. Both men turned to look at Horsefry, who had been made perky by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling,… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I'm not an angry person, just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans' choices - and on stage those feelings sometimes… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
“ Bethune was a communist and an atheist with a healthy contempt for his evangelical father.” — Larry Hannant Copy Share Image
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will. — James Lileks Copy Share Image
I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
