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Contempt Quotes by Jane Austen
- I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.
- Oh!†said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say…
- She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an…
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- The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of… — Carl Bernstein
- The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. — Jello Biafra
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- I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when… — Michael Bloomberg
- It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring… — W. E. B. Du Bois
- Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites… — Louis D. Brandeis
- True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues… — Thomas Carlyle
- Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. — Cesar Chavez