How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And… — Thomas Chatterton Copy Share Image
I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy. — Ralph Thomas Walker Copy Share Image
Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns;Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;The… — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
“Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Humankind has not evolved in its most basic instincts much beyond the caveman era. Yet every attempt to change that is met… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
President Bush, whose scorn for journalists is balanced by a soft spot in his heart for the conglomerates they work for, threatens… — Bill Moyers 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
O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of… — Homer 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
Thank you for your input; I can tell you are struggling towards being interesting. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires… — Charles le Gai Eaton Copy Share Image
Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction. — Abraham Lincoln 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
The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my… — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
