Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule… — Joseph R. Bartlett 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
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
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
Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled… — Aristotle 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
The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt… — John Carroll 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
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed… — Laurence Sterne 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
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
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
If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“Familiarity does not breed contempt. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to hide the secret conviction that they’re boring.” — Patrick Honovich Copy Share Image
I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
When there's something you can't understand no matter how much you think about it, you can't let yourself brood over it forever. — D-Gray Man Copy Share Image
A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As painful as it is to receive contempt from another, it is more debilitating by far to be filled with contempt for… — Arbinger Institute Copy Share Image
We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay… — Jennifer Pahlka Copy Share Image
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer… — Julius Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“I cozied an apple in my hand and tried the weight of it against my palm, contemplating whether or not beaning a… — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
“It was, for the time being, an empty threat, and he must have sensed it also, for he laughed easily and with… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
“[A] nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.” — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
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![“Ultimately, Monsieur, we must go to God per infamiam et bonam famam [whether spoken of well or ill], and His Divine Goodness is merciful to us when it pleases Him to allow us to encounter blame and public contempt. I am sure you have borne patiently the embarrassment you experienced because of…” quote by Vincent de Paul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66b/vincent-de-paul-1676_accepted_ultimately-monsieur-we-must-go-to-god-pe_2967303.png)
![“We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.” quote by Jennifer Pahlka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/614/jennifer-pahlka-19149_bureaucracy_we-say-that-word-bureaucracy-with-such-c_2490511.jpg)
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