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263 Scorn quotes by 200 unique authors

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. — Mark Twain
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. — Tennessee Williams
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. — William Butler Yeats
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable. — Marquis de Sade
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a… — Bertrand Russell
Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is… — Albert Einstein
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and… — Simone Weil
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their… — Emile M. Cioran
She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated! — F. Scott Fitzgerald
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. — Albert Einstein
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he… — Martin Luther
A little scorn is alluring. — William Congreve
Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write… — Flannery O'Connor
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns. — Mark Twain
Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that… — Kevin Brockmeier
Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn.… — Emily Bronte
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the… — John Clare
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? The… — Emily Dickinson
That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then… — Barack Obama
I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock.… — Charlotte Bronte
Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for… — Charlotte Bronte

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