Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny. — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon 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
Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. — Hosea Ballou 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
“Forgive me if your contempt from on high always brings out the worst in me.” — Laura Lee Guhrke Copy Share Image
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. — Henry Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Now he was gone and she was married to a man she not only did not love but for whom she had… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“For men who have lived for a lifetime on a diet of contempt and disdain, the temptation to gain instant respect in… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt… — Nance O'Neil Copy Share Image
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Set goals & life plan.If you aim for nothing you will reach no where.Make aim & stay focused on where you want… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds… — Dan Abnett Copy Share Image
My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generTo be rich nowadays… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
I think psychologically [Margaret Thatcher] is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“can still hear the contempt in her voice. At times everyone wonders how deeply buried contempt is beneath the surface of their… — Adrian Barnes Copy Share Image
The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling,… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
“Oh, that's just Thud! That's easy!" yapped a voice. Both men turned to look at Horsefry, who had been made perky by… — Terry Pratchett 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“We drove on in silence, Dad shaking his head in disgust every few minutes. I stared at him, wondering how it was… — Jennifer Brown Copy Share Image
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