Contempt Quotes

515 quotes by 379 authors

Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other,… — Samuel Johnson
Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie. — Linda Sunshine
Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable. — Archibald Rutledge
The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever government had allied itself with one particular form of… — Hugo Black
A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his… — John Steinbeck
The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of… — Harold Russell
In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because… — Neil LaBute
Terrorism is contempt for human dignity. — Kjell Magne Bondevik
To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them. — Claude Chabrol
I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there… — Christopher Darden
He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring. — Joni Mitchell
Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant. — Horace
Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven. — Neal A. Maxwell
I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if… — Wyatt Earp
I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once… — Criss Jami
Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many,… — Edwin Percy Whipple
Never be silent! Make your opinions known, and do not fear retribution for speaking your mind! The only ones who will aggressively try to silence… — Derek R. Audette
The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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