The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary… — Paul Cezanne 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
You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good… — Alphonsus Liguori 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
there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share Image
And now because you are His child, live as a child of God; be redeemed from the life of evil, which is… — Frederick William Robertson 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
As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who… — Auguste Piccard Copy Share Image
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I learned to share work with people even when it was in its rough stages without worrying that they'd be filled with… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I have nothing but scorn for the notion of an Islamic bomb. There is no such thing as an Islamic bomb or… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
NovemberÂ’s days are thirty: NovemberÂ’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are… — Edward Thomas 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
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it.… — Khalil Gibran 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
It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is't not enough, is't not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We must be able to deal with ridicule and scorn, which it always seems that Buddhists receive. But we feel that it… — Frederick Lenz 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
In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I've built many doorways and set out traps so that no one will be able to reach this place. That's what the… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride,… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Disease. Filth. Waste. Crime. Brutality. What’s there to like? (Solin) There’s brutality on Olympus. (Arik) True. But I hate humanity as much… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he… — Frances Osborne 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
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
A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
. . . It is God's plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptations of mind and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a… — Jeaniene Frost 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
Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my… — William Somervile 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
The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
