Best Scorn Proverbs

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They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into… — Toni Morrison
No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood… — Robert Green Ingersoll
All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured… — Salman Rushdie
Night of Sleepless Love The night above. We two. Full moon. I started to weep, you laughed. Your scorn was a god, my laments moments… — Federico Garcia Lorca
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In… — Brennan Manning
Disease. Filth. Waste. Crime. Brutality. What’s there to like? (Solin) There’s brutality on Olympus. (Arik) True. But I hate humanity as much as I hate… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
While I was looking the other way your fire went out Left me with cinders to kick into dust What a waste of the wonder… — Kristin Cashore
He deserves nothing. Nothing but our scorn. (Father) Then I am rich indeed from the abundance of that which you’ve shown me. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy. — William Shakespeare
One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a… — Anne Rice
THERE IS NO mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling… — Jed Rubenfeld
Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences. — Clarence Jordan
He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval,… — Emily Bronte
How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your… — Charles Dickens
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For… — Anne Bradstreet
Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man,… — William Shakespeare
Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not… — Samuel Beckett
He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony;… — William Shakespeare
Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs! — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I love you, I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and… — William Goldman
Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for a specific example?"… — Judith McNaught
Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows… — William Shakespeare
In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing. — C.J. Sansom
They were partners. She would always make impulsive decisions and he would make slow, reasoned ones. He would always be a little terrified that she… — Eloisa James

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