Scorn Quotes

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A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn. — John Bercow
'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn. — Nolan Bushnell
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. — Albert Camus
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. — Albert Camus
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
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
To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth — William Shakespeare
The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise. — Garet Garrett
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
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
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
This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high. — Abraham Cowley
Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy. — Thomas Browne
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
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
It would hurt my feelings if I respected your opinions. — Simon Cowell
Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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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