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
A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively. — Esther Meynell 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
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
They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is… — Anonymous 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
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
To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best… — Norman Mailer 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
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
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
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
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
The leader is best, When people are hardly aware of his existence, Not so good when people praise his government, Less good… — Laozi 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
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside.… — James Salter 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
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
“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
“With an exceedingly contemptuous expression, Idabel drew up to her full height. "Son," she said, and spit between her fingers, "what you've… — Truman Capote 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
“You were so quick to judge, weren’t you? Ah, you revealed so much with that contemptuous utterance. And I admit to being… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude. — Mario Cantone 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
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton 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
The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking,… — Fritz Leiber 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
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