Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. — Minna Antrim Copy Share Image
“bebop at its core: It wasn’t just art for art’s sake but art that could show contempt for its audience.” — Peter Pullman 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
“Montaigne: “Religion’s surest foundation is the contempt for life.” — Christopher Hitchens 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
“The way to keep down hatred and contempt is certainly not to look for a man's alleged "dignity," but, on the contrary,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Familiarity may breed contempt; but perhaps it would be more truthful to say that familiarity breeds blindness” — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them. — John M. Gottman Copy Share Image
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Contempt for one's own comrades, for the troops of the enemy, and, above all, fierce contempt for one's own person, are what… — William James Copy Share Image
Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“The contempt which she had, very early in their acquaintance, felt for her daughter-in-law, was very much increased by the farther knowledge… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And at once I fell in love with her, for if it is sometimes enough to make us love a woman that… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The media has contempt for people that voted for Trump. They have no desire to understand who they are. They already think… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Its contempt for citizens ... is so routine, and so unlimited, that the agency has become a kind of Frankenstein, running wild… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
I like art that challenges you and makes a lot of people angry because they don't get it. Because they refuse to… — John Waters Copy Share Image
These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest;… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us.… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“I shared with Fleur the mysterious self-contempt of the survivor. There were times we hated who we were, and who we had… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
