Disdainful Quotes
19 Disdainful quotes by 17 unique authors
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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
— H. L. Mencken
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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
— Michel de Montaigne
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One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign…
— Joseph Conrad
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The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.
— Unknown Author
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Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.
— Dogen
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For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little…
— George Eliot
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Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
— Thomas Gray
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Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful, and…
— Neal Stephenson
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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
— Michel de Montaigne
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The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature…
— Bernard Berenson
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While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.
— Eugene O'Neill
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Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.
— Joanne Harris
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Stop it." Isabelle tapped a booted foot in the shallow water at the lake's edge. "Both of you. In fact, all three of you. If…
— Cassandra Clare
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I defy you to try it, Princess. Go ahead. I don’t even know how to sweep a floor. All I know how to do is…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?
— Vladimir Nabokov
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There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side…
— Maya Angelou
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Election Day 2010 saw the culmination of years of aggravation and resentment toward a federal government that became disconnected and disdainful of the values and…
— George Allen
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Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved,…
— Charles Albert Gobat
Who Wrote These Disdainful Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 19 Disdainful Quotes as follows: