Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“If it isn’t snide or contemptuous, it isn’t worth the time to say it.” — Wade Kelly Copy Share Image
I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But,… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
You really don’t want to take that tone with me. (Varyk) Well, I do have several others we can choose from. Contemptuous.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts. We can either be… — Hazel Scott Copy Share Image
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In selling his scheme, Obama has been promoting the myth that our system is no better than those of other advanced nations.… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
As Gove knows… 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There is indeed a great deal of futility amongst the human race which we do not commonly see, for it all forms… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
“The chief reason why the prince was so particularly disagreeable to Vronsky was that he could not help seeing himself in him.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
So in 1924, Eleanor Roosevelt really gets a sense of what the limits of the battle and the contours of the battle… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
“Listen, I wanted to say, I don't need your judgment, okay? I have enough to deal with without you contributing, so can… — Jessica Verdi Copy Share Image
But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I wasn't sure if I admired him for feeling everything so hard and fiercely, or if I was contemptuous of him for… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The New York Times is most definitely a left-wing concern that is openly contemptuous of the conservative, traditional point of view. That… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“You are, I think, a little bit contemptuous of the way I prosecute my inquiries," he said with a twinkle.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“My husband would probably like you to know that, for the sake of my research for this chapter, he has had to… — Cordelia Fine Copy Share Image
Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God. — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
“Sorry happens after something bad has happened, after people have let it happen. It had become contemptuous to me, all these I’m-so-sorries.” — Wendy Walker Copy Share Image
The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems -… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image