Contempt Quotes

515 quotes by 384 authors

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. — Samuel Johnson
The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who… — Tony Judt
What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile. — Jack Kevorkian
Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead. — Jack Kevorkian
Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in… — Jonathan Kozol
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. — Karl Kraus
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love. — Marshall McLuhan
The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. — H. L. Mencken
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. — Alice Miller
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly… — Toni Morrison
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color. — Toni Morrison
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of… — Toni Morrison
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt. — Susie Orbach
Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements. — Paracelsus
Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt. — Harold Pinter
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only… — Plutarch
Only the contemptible fear contempt. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it? — Mitt Romney

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