Disdain Quote by Edward Young Download Open image “It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.” — Edward Young ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disdain Disguise Manly Prove Shows Spirit Strength
Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavor to wear as much of the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I used to wear disguises, like hats and false beards, just to walk around and avoid attention. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I like disguises because then, I forget myself, and become someone else. — Sunil Grover Copy Share Image
Never hide yourself! When you say something, don't be in the shadow; let everyone see you! Whatever you say always put your name under… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you increase the number of rockets you build and you buy, then it's the scale of the economy, the price is going to… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
Law 36: Disdain things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best revenge. — The 48 Laws Of Power Copy Share Image
“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.” — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts.… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
I've always found that word [“hipster”] is used with such disdain, like it's always used by chubby bloggers who aren't getting laid anymore and… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image