A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my… — Gen Urobuchi Copy Share Image
When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
“The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an… — Kenyon Cox Copy Share Image
He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
“Though no one recognized his strength, Anand was among the strong. His satirical sense kept him aloof. At first this was only… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting… — Pindar Copy Share Image
All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another.… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy. — James David Barber Copy Share Image
Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“You're lying to yourself again. You wanted to get rid of them. Their contempt and disgust aren't pleasant company. You're glad they're… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“It is far better to bear the contempt and hatred of adversaries than to fall into reproach and into the snare of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being… — King James I Copy Share Image
The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“The way Grey speaks, one would think she had been garlanded in rubies and peonies rather than the semen of men who… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“If in our day there are so many men that pass before the Cross wagging their head, who gaze at our altars… — Emile Bougaud Copy Share Image
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
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