Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness? — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Always welcome your customer's scorn. This rule says read the complaint letters. Categorize them. Decide how you are going to wipe them… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a… — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits, — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image