There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies, that might be called sado-paternalism, whereby a surrogate father treats a gifted but… — Philip French Copy Share Image
Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
When I first started doing the quieter, more acoustic material in Swans, there was a lot of derision and outright hatred from… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
The Christian principles on which the country was primarily founded are rarely consulted other than for formalities of state, derision, or for… — H. Wayne House Copy Share Image
“There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below.” — Gordon R. Dickson Copy Share Image
An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A schmuck is a general term of disrespect. It's a term of contempt and derision. It applies to a lot of people. — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The derision comes from snobbery, which I think is the worst thing for art and music. I don't think there's any place… — Theo Hutchcraft Copy Share Image
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Being a victim doesn't take much. There are built-in excuses for failure. Built-in excuses for being miserable. Built-in excuses for being angry… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
There once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, 'Why pick on my eyes?… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“It is [Simon] Wessely’s often-unconcealed “derision” directed towards people with ME -- a disease from which people die and which appears on… — Michael Hanlon Copy Share Image
Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
Most of us agree that the United Nations is the vanguard of a foreign invasion and must be driven from our shores.… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
