“That was not a glare. That was a dignified look of measured contempt.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
“…..she needed him to know she did not care. She was spirited, tenacious, and full of contempt for him.” — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt. — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
“As painful as it is to receive contempt from another, it is more debilitating by far to be filled with contempt for… — Arbinger Institute Copy Share Image
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay… — Jennifer Pahlka 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
I know I'm not completely over him. He still crosses my mind several times a day, but with each one of those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Laziness can be a value on its own for those who want to show supremacy through contempt for work and wish to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
and standing before me a bloodied bottle of Absolut in her hand, is Mrs. Allington, her pink jogging suit drenched, her chest… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the… — Anonymous 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
These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest;… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
I like art that challenges you and makes a lot of people angry because they don't get it. Because they refuse to… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Its contempt for citizens ... is so routine, and so unlimited, that the agency has become a kind of Frankenstein, running wild… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of… — Heber Doust Curtis Copy Share Image
Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image