Disdain Quotes

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

— Chuck Jones

For he who is not deaf, half a silence is enough.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

“ignored with disdain by”

— Albert Payson Terhune

“Let us not disdain the ass,”

— Johann David Wyss

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

— Khalil Gibran

I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.

— Laura Linney

My disdain for Trump is clear and warranted.

— Ana Kasparian

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

— Thomas de Quincey

“your Black Panther get up indicates an obvious disdain toward white people.”

— David Achord

No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.

— Vera Caspary

If there's one thing Eagles and Giants fans can agree on, it's a mutual disdain for Skip Bayless.

— Sean Evans

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true.

— J. K. Bharavi

Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.

— Francois Rabelais

A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.

— Robert Greene

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

— Benjamin Franklin

One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while…

— Imagawa Sadayo

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one…

— Henry Clay

My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key…

— Sigmund Freud

I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to…

— Hans Kung

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

Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate.

— Amish Tripathi

It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I…

— Eric Stoltz

“I had hoped to be disliked by most, not by way of rebellion, but by way of excellence, disdain for the habitual,…

— Jamie Weise

I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing.…

— Bill Maher

Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the…

— Fernando Pessoa

Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did…

— Laini Taylor

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child.…

— Tom Stoppard

“You've invaded my mind and I can't get you out of it," he accused with discernible disdain. She avoided looking at him…

— Donna Lynn Hope

Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they,…

— Thomas Hooker

Poetry Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as…

— Aleister Crowley

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

Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability…

— Linda Ellerbee

Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase…

— Alain de Botton

Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped into…

— Mark Lilla

Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes…

— Thane Rosenbaum

“My dear Hogun, when a woman is beautiful, she comes to expect a certain—how shall I say?—a certain reverence from men. You…

— David Gemmell