Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me? — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“bebop at its core: It wasn’t just art for art’s sake but art that could show contempt for its audience.” — Peter Pullman Copy Share Image
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. — Minna Antrim Copy Share Image
“Polite contempt. The barbed and poisonous weapon of the righteous.” — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt. — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking… — Alice Paul Copy Share Image
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't hold any contempt for people who are practicing law. I know how hard it is, I know how hard they… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice,… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. — William Hazlitt 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
“Lady Russell had only to listen composedly, and wish them happy, but internally her heart revelled in angry pleasure, in pleased contempt,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Phew!” His small blue eyes shone with repugnance, a look of such unreasoning contempt for my skin that it filled me with… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
“Be convinced, that there are no persons so insignificant and inconsiderable, but may, some time or other, have it in their power… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Remembering that only a few years ago men, women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for having expressed in an… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“George meanwhile, with his hat on one side, his elbows squared, and his swaggering martial air, made for Bedford Row, and stalked… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Well, it’s no use your talking about waking him, said Tweedledum, when you’re only one of the things in his dream. You… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
