Contempt Quotes

515 quotes by 379 authors

It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
She'd always had such contempt for mundanes, the way all Shadowhunters did--she'd believed that they were soft, stupid, sheeplike in their complacency. Now she wondered… — Cassandra Clare
If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of… — Derrick Jensen
Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that youâ€™re just as human as they are. Thatâ€™s when the madness sets in. They… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of… — T.E. Lawrence
Well, itâ€™s no use your talking about waking him, said Tweedledum, when youâ€™re only one of the things in his dream. You know very well… — Lewis Carroll
There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt. — Thomas Harris
I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt.… — George Carlin
Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women,… — Arundhati Roy
I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies… — Kurt Vonnegut
Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who… — Doris Lessing
I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character. — Elizabeth Gaskell
There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor… — John Adams
When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation,… — Steven Pressfield
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because… — Elizabeth Goudge
I take a few breaths to calm myself, step back, and lift Buttercup by the scruff of the neck. "I should've drowned you when I… — Suzanne Collins
Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health… — Aldo Leopold
Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should… — Brennan Manning
You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all… — Joni Mitchell

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