Contempt Quotes

515 quotes by 384 authors

Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies. — Andrea Dworkin
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion… — William Shakespeare
Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of… — Thomas Jefferson
I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides,… — Anna Quindlen
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift… — Natalia Ginzburg
Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything. — Noel Coward
In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success. — Robert Menzies
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them. — John M. Gottman
The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs… — Saint Augustine
The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in… — William J. Clinton
Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt.… — Robert A. Heinlein
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. — Jonathan Haidt
Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime… — John Milton
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. — Michel de Montaigne
Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to… — Jean Baudrillard
Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.… — Mark Twain
And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were… — Andrzej Szczypiorski

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