“Forgive me if your contempt from on high always brings out the worst in me.” — Laura Lee Guhrke Copy Share Image
It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror. — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
“Rainbow dust?" sneered Joe, drawing out each syllable until it snapped from the weight of his contempt.” — Jon Fasman Copy Share Image
We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“Finally turning his head, he regarded me appraisingly, with contempt so thick that I expected to hear it drizzle to the floor… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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
“When a Westerner meets someone from a poor country, he feels deep contempt. He assumes that the poor man's head must be… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“The problem with becoming too immersed in what people like to call magic is thinking it is superior to everything and learning… — Megan Derr Copy Share Image
Show no fear to your enemies. Only contempt. Never let anyone look down on you. You're just as good as any of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
The wide and unregulated power of contempt given to the courts has been deliberately interpreted by the courts in a manner which… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement -… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid… — Rick Falkvinge 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
It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“What I feel for you is contempt. But it's nothing, compared to the contempt I feel for myself. I don't love you.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North… — Don Feder 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
When I beheld you, suddenly - for perhaps a second - I had the strength to reject everything that wasn't you and… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“No one can attain moksha by pushing away others with contempt. So beware!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government. — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet. — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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