Contempt Quotes

515 quotes by 379 authors

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. — Miguel de Cervantes
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting. — Benjamin Franklin
Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt. — Eric Hoffer
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures,… — Eric Hoffer
The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse… — Samuel Johnson
Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a… — James Laver
Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt. — Sathya Sai Baba
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea. — Man Ray
All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to… — Philip Guston
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner… — Edward Hopper
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt. — Chaka Khan
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from… — William Osler
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a… — John Muir
A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or… — Theodore Roosevelt
The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements. — Charles Fort
Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal meekly. Frequently call… — Saint Francis de Sales
If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the… — Martin Cruz Smith
The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt. — William Osler
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the… — Louis D. Brandeis
Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could… — William Butler Yeats

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