Contempt Quotes

515 quotes by 379 authors

Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did with Lyndon Johnson,… — George Friedman
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go. — St. Jerome
I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have… — Winston Churchill
Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views. — William Hazlitt
Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have… — Baltasar Gracian
My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't… — Gore Vidal
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. — Charles de Gaulle
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt? — Khalil Gibran
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget. — Mason Cooley
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced… — Nicolaus Copernicus
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing… — Quentin Crisp
Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America. — Robert Crumb
The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change… — Mitch Daniels
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since… — Albert Einstein
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. — William Hazlitt
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. — William Hazlitt
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for… — William Hazlitt
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in… — Christopher Hitchens
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled. — Eric Hoffer

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