There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed… — Greg Chappell Copy Share Image
“Some mate," Karl Framm said with contempt. "Hell, that little stern-wheeler we're chasin' don't draw nothin'. After a good rain, she could… — George R.R. Martin 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
The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt?… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
The God of hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A god who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that… — Pat Toomey Copy Share Image
“Keep this in mind, my friends: don’t expect life to love you always! In life, you shall sometimes see true rejection and… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“Every exercise of power incorporates a faint, almost imperceptible, element of contempt for those over whom the power is exercised. One can… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
When the pangs shoot through our body, and ghastly death appears in view, people see the patience of the dying Christian. Our… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
“I believe that this suffering, which Miss Hale says is impressed on the countenances of the people of Milton, is but the… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image
Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general; one would think by them, that the whole… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Perhaps his taciturnity hid a contempt for the human race which had abandoned the great dreams of his youth and now wallowed… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Ronan merely invested a look with as much contempt as he could muster. A lady reached over the top of Noah to… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully… — Pamela Meyer 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
Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
