“All marriages are like this. The component parts are contempt and irritation because we know each other by heart, by rote; we're… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt.… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt… — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's why every society on the planet has very definite rules, ideas about how sex should be regulated, how sex should be… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise. — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
“Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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