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263 Scorn quotes by 200 unique authors

Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn! — J.R.R. Tolkien
I love you,” Buttercup said. “I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade… — William Goldman
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no… — John Barth
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and… — John Gardner
To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time now that we… — Cassandra Clare
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook… — Francis Schaeffer
I feel your scorn, and I accept it. — Jon Stewart
There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back… — Alyson Noel
But this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to think about making… — Meg Wolitzer
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of… — Samuel Daniel
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the… — Mark Twain
In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess-fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men he cannot handle… — Herbert Newton Casson
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God… — Thomas Adams
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. — Horace
No corner of the world is free from group scorn. — Gordon W. Allport
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn… — Ellen Willis
As a kid, I pretty much got nothing but scorn, and occasionally active animus, for writing fantasy and squirreling it away in my closet and,… — Sherwood Smith
Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a long way, but… — Jeaniene Frost
Are these the Americans? People remain silent and placate the Americans. By God, they only deserve scorn. We slaughtered them yesterday and we will continue… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. — John Gay
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is… — Comte de Lautreamont
The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a… — Charles Hamilton Houston
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition,… — G. H. Hardy

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