Best Scorn Quotes
263 Scorn quotes by 200 unique authors
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Always scorn appearances and you always may.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
— W. S. Gilbert
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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow,…
— Charles Lamb
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We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things,…
— Franz Marc
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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in…
— Dorothy Day
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Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more…
— Ayn Rand
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You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves;…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn…
— William Cowper
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions…
— Isaac Asimov
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I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting…
— Robertson Davies
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But…
— Bertrand Russell
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The God of hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A god who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved; cursed, not…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there…
— Muriel Barbery
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However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power…
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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If you don't want to see the biggest fool in your life; break your bedroom mirror.
— Sharon Osbourne
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Paul Newman is simple not an actor and possibly not even alive.
— Dwight Macdonald
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I scorn you, scurvy companion.
— William Shakespeare
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The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments,…
— Benjamin Cardozo
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Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born.
— Margaret Widdemer
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There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect
— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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The thought of the presence of God and the spirit of worship will in all my actions have as their immediate object Jesus, God and…
— Pope John XXIII
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