Aristocracy Quote by Edmund Burke

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and…

— Blaise Pascal

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

— Bryant H. McGill

Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.

— Luc de Clapiers

“Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are…

— Thomas Paine

Contempt for men pervades the most obscure strata of our society.

— Lawrence Wright

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge,…

— Rudyard Kipling

“men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time.”

— Tocqueville de

Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

— Samuel Smiles

Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without…

— Aristotle

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

— Thucydides

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of…

— Leo Tolstoy