Scornful Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more…
— Lewis Carroll
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I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
— Stephen Ambrose
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Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
— Samuel Johnson
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
— Socrates
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The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
— George Eliot
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Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.
— Margaret Way
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The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than…
— Samuel Johnson
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The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the…
— Rachel Cusk
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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an…
— Andre Maurois
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When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more…
— Lewis Carroll
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As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the…
— Colin Wilson
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The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on…
— Virginia Woolf
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the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse
— John Knowles
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Charlotte leaned forward across the table. “The Dark Sisters never mentioned what use they intended to make of your abilities, did they?†“You know about…
— Cassandra Clare
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Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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‎Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful…
— Henning Mankell
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We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
— Margaret Atwood
Who Wrote These Scornful Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Scornful Quotes as follows: