Contemptuous Quotes

44 quotes by 43 authors

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right… — John le Carre
Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow,… — Jean de la Bruyere
You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that… — Wallace Stegner
In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would… — Thucydides
She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You… — W. Somerset Maugham
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if… — Betty Friedan
In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries… — Oswald Spengler
Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki... — Thomas Harris
Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual… — Eric Fischl
I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I… — James Joyce
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies:… — James Salter
Rejoice in the prosperity of others. When you feel contemptuous, or even a twinge of jealousy, toward the accomplishments or life-styles of others, you are… — Wayne Dyer
I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first. — E F Schumacher
As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more… — George Orwell
But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all… — J D Salinger
I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude. — Mario Cantone
Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors. — Jubal
The leader is best, When people are hardly aware of his existence, Not so good when people praise his government, Less good when people stand… — Laozi
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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