The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt. — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed. — Ambrose Bierce 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
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I can by no means approve the scurrility and contempt with which the Romanists have often been treated. I dare not rail… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of… — Henry Ford 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
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
“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
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
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