Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“The gods! long since they hold us in contempt, Scornful of gifts thus offered by the lost! Why should we fawn and… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
You don't have contempt for a horse that's troubled. Everybody has baggage, everybody has things that they've had to deal with in… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that… — Adam Smith 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
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
There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems;… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever government had allied itself with one… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
“Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it? — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the… — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
“setting your mind on best forgotten issue is adding to ones contempt and sorrows cos there is no future to derive in… — ojo emmanuel david Copy Share Image
When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within… — Saadi Copy Share Image
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another. — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking… — Alice Paul Copy Share Image
When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt. — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
“Contempt is conceived with expectations. Respect is conceived with expressions of gratitude. We can choose which one we will obsess over—expectations,” — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
I don't hold any contempt for people who are practicing law. I know how hard it is, I know how hard they… — Min Jin Lee 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
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice,… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
“If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Trump's real Achilles heel, and the thing most likely to keep him out of the White House, is his brazen contempt for… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the… — William Watson 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
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
“Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the… — Nietzsche Copy Share Image
