Scorn Quotes · Page 4

But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit,…

— William Cowper

Science is better paid than at any time in the past. The results of this pay have been to attract into science…

— Norbert Wiener

I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it…

— Robertson Davies

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary…

— Paul Cezanne

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in…

— Jose Marti

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a…

— Laura Marling

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

— Mark Twain

Paul Newman is simple not an actor and possibly not even alive.

— Dwight Macdonald

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men…

— G. H. Hardy

Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.

— James Boswell

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits,

— Anne Bradstreet

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

— Horace

Let me arise and open the gate, to breathe the wild warm air of the heath, And to let in Love, and…

— Violet Fane

I love you,” Buttercup said. “I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn…

— William Goldman

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

Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.

— William Shakespeare

There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.

— Nas

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

— Honore de Balzac

Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was…

— Frederick Lenz

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

— Samuel Johnson

That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em, We may live with, but cannot live without 'em.

— Frederic Reynolds

See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne