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Contempt Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.
- 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…
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
- A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which…
- The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
- There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.
- Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other,…
- The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse…
- The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
- So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and…
- Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and amongst narrow minds may, therefore, expose its author to censure…
More Contempt Quotes
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- He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the… — Samuel Johnson
- The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They… — Auberon Waugh
- 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
- Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. — Cesar Chavez
- There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an… — Lord Chesterfield
- We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero