There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt. — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“A contempt for things, for order, cleanliness, must lie on a spectrum with scorn for laws, values, for life itself. What is… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant. — Horace Copy Share Image
A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Should we not think ourselves worthy of contempt to dote upon a perishing glory, to expect support from an arm of flesh,… — William Symington Copy Share Image
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught… — James Mackintosh 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
Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled… — Aristotle 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
Not caring how you look is but a brief step away from not caring what you do or how you treat people.… — Lynda Lee-Potter Copy Share Image
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Ultimately, Monsieur, we must go to God per infamiam et bonam famam [whether spoken of well or ill], and His Divine Goodness… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Scientists themselves are of surprisingly little help. They find it difficult to talk of what they do because they tend to assume… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
Aaron Sorkin uses a lot of the same people again and again - the people he likes. I think if there's ever… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
There was a free election in Palestine, but it came out the wrong way. So instantly, the United States and Israel with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt. — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
“Q: The Witness is reminded that she may be held in contempt. A: The feeling is mutual.” — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
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