It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated! — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or… — John Clare Copy Share Image
There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, the "queers" of homosexuality.In fact, they… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone. — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem. — Robin Roberts Copy Share Image
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
False liberty is also a reason that people fabricate doctrines that say that you don't need to suffer. One such doctrine is… — Johan Oscar Smith Copy Share Image
