Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words? — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise. — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“For the male sickness of self-contempt, the surest cure is to be loved by a clever woman” — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring… — W. E. B. Du Bois 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 do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into… — Andrea Dworkin 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
But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's.… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances,… — Joseph Kastein Copy Share Image
Hitler did not have Mussolini's revolutionary socialist background... Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the 'bourgeoisie' and 'capitalism' and… — Richard Pipes Copy Share Image
Even despots accept the excellence of liberty. The simple truth is that they wish to keep it for themselves and promote the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“…..she needed him to know she did not care. She was spirited, tenacious, and full of contempt for him.” — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“Style, after all, is a kind of humor, Something truly beneath contempt...” — Larry Levis Copy Share Image
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
“That was not a glare. That was a dignified look of measured contempt.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
