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Contempt Quotes by William Hazlitt
- No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as…
- The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
- Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
- Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
- To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
- Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for…
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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
- Familiarity breeds contempt. — Aesop
- 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
- There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an… — Lord Chesterfield
- If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely… — Lord Chesterfield
- No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. — Winston Churchill