Contempt Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contempt Dine Pride Vanity
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it. — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse,… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them. — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends that makes… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Every person of any rank in the left, from voter on up to cabinet member to elected official in the Democrat Party, has contempt.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
