Contempt Quotes

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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. — Bertrand Russell
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. — William Shakespeare
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. — John Steinbeck
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. — Mark Twain
It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge… — Dag Hammarskjold
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like… — Thomas Paine
There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does.… — Molly Ivins
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is… — Gregory Maguire
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBoisâ€™s learning and Baldwinâ€™s… — Barack Obama
That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they donâ€™t know it. Those who… — Ayn Rand
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. — Albert Einstein
She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him — Baroness Orczy
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your… — Lorrie Moore
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people. — James A. Baldwin
The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. — Harold Pinter
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world… — Thomas Mann
For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./… — Homer
JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it. — Mae West

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