Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
As a kid, I pretty much got nothing but scorn, and occasionally active animus, for writing fantasy and squirreling it away in… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great… — Marjorie Benton Cooke Copy Share Image
A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism.… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
One man said, "I looked at my brother through the microscope of criticism, and I said, "How coarse my brother is." Then… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less… — Eric Hoffer 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
She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of… — Ouida Copy Share Image
My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,… — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him;… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone. — Wendy Wasserstein 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
“Maybe that was the root of my dislike for her: she had what I wanted, which earned her my jealousy, and since… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
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