Scorn Quotes
263 quotes by 209 authors
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A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.
— John Bercow
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'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.
— Nolan Bushnell
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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
— Albert Camus
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There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
— Albert Camus
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The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That…
— Albert Camus
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Featureless figures…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth
— William Shakespeare
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The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
— Garet Garrett
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See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
— John Milton
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A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.
— Robert H. Jackson
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
— Abraham Cowley
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Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
— Thomas Browne
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions.
— Simon Cowell
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Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness…
— Eric Hoffer
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