In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers, And serves the altar, in… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
He deserves nothing. Nothing but our scorn. (Father) Then I am rich indeed from the abundance of that which you’ve shown me.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“What rubbish anyway, he thought with scorn, an all-powerful god that was everywhere at once yet nowhere to be seen. These grunts… — Howard Loring Copy Share Image
Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A leader is only able to lead others because he disciplines himself. The person who does not know how to bow to… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered… — Howard Adelman Copy Share Image
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn.… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the… — Arthur Guiterman Copy Share Image
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let me arise and open the gate, to breathe the wild warm air of the heath, And to let in Love, and… — Violet Fane Copy Share Image
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
But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
“Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth;… — Edward FitzGerald Copy Share Image
When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of… — John Newton 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
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
Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the… — Thomas de Quincey 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
I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the… — Homer Copy Share Image
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an… — African Spir Copy Share Image