Disdainful Quotes

19 Disdainful quotes by 17 unique authors

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
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
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
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English. — Unknown Author
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
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
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. — Thomas Gray
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
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
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
While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it. — Eugene O'Neill
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
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
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
Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids? — Vladimir Nabokov
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
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
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: