Contempt Quotes

515 quotes by 384 authors

Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins… — Victor Davis Hanson
Who's gonna give me a TV show? I didn't work for an impeached, disbarred President who was held in contempt by a federal judge. That's… — Ann Coulter
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer. — Brendan Behan
The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for… — Rick Falkvinge
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our… — Michel de Montaigne
I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity. — Gertrude Stein
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of… — Plutarch
Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners. — William Ralph Inge
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible. — Samuel Johnson
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to… — Lord Chesterfield
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose… — Lord Chesterfield
I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may… — Joseph Conrad
We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that… — Adrienne Rich
Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and an incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to… — Dag Hammarskjold
The universal religion - contempt for women. — Andrea Dworkin
The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter. — Hannah Arendt
Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who… — Hilaire Belloc
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the… — Pindar
Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this… — Hilaire Belloc
I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals. — Alexander Lebed

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