What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts;… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply...… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
In Ghazalia, Mr. Hussein showed his contempt for the majority Shiites in ways large and small. He refused to allow them even… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think when it comes to women who write or who fancy ourselves 'hip downtown literati', there is a certain contempt for… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never… — Heather King Copy Share Image
Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
There are many who say to the Lord, "I give myself wholly to Thee, without any reserve," but there are few who… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Hitler did not have Mussolini's revolutionary socialist background... Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the 'bourgeoisie' and 'capitalism' and… — Richard Pipes Copy Share Image
In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full… — Dorothy Richardson 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
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt. — A. C. Dixon Copy Share Image
This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image