Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one. — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I think one thing we share [with my wife] is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true. — J. K. Bharavi Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Donia asked incredulously. “What were you doing?” “The day had just begun, and we were dancing,” Aislinn said. “Dancing?” Donia looked at… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I suspect it's because Truman Democrats have been replaced by Gruber Democrats - self-styled elitists who feed lavishly at the public trough… — Jack Kelly Copy Share Image
I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a… — Henry Fairlie Copy Share Image
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image