Contempt Quotes

515 quotes by 384 authors

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. — C.S. Lewis
I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and freedom, must be… — Leyla Zana
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. — Benjamin Franklin
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. — Seneca the Younger
Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. — Samuel Johnson
Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a… — Washington Irving
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your… — George Santayana
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high. — Abraham Cowley
Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy. — Thomas Browne
For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed. — Ambrose Bierce
Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt… — Yehuda Berg
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them. — Evelyn Waugh
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,… — Thomas Jefferson
He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination… — Samuel Johnson
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance… — Nikola Tesla

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