“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and reverent heart. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I think anyone who serves in public office should have a little bit of contempt for government in their heart. — Carlos Lopez-Cantera 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
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related… — Charles Alexander Eastman 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
“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
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
“How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit… — David Rice 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
“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Be grateful to everyone" is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected... If we were to make… — Pema Chodron 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
“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
“It contained a sad, but too common story of the hard-heartedness of the wealthy, and the misery endured by the children of… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Every person - whether Greek or Barbarian - who is in training for wisdom, leading a blameless, irreproachable life, chooses neither to… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“But when fundamentals are doubted, as at present, we must try to recover the candour and wonder of the child; the unspoilt… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
“I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.” — Juan Miro Copy Share Image
Familiarity brings contempt but rarity breeds admiration — Ogunsakin Ayobami Ayorinde 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
Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything. — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
